[Samba] Fw: Home directory is not created

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 30 May 2018 14:56:53 +0000
Suman Koirala via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

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> Hi there,
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> I have following  homes section on my smb.conf file.
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> [homes]
>    comment = Home Directories
>    browseable = no
>    read only = no
>    valid users = %S
>    guest ok = no
>    path = /home/remote/%U
>    root preexec = /usr/local/sbin/mkhomdironfly.sh %U
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> script to make home directory i.e mkhomdironfly.sh
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> if [ ! -e /home/remote/$1 ]; then
>         mkdir /home/remote/$1
>         cp /etc/skel/* /home/remote/$1
>         chown -R $1 /home/remote/$1
>         chgrp -R "domain users" /home/remote/$1
>         chmod -R 700 /home/remote/$1
> fi
> exit 0
> ~
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> I was able to login but the home directory is  not created. And it
> does not show any sort of errors in the log file.
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> i have also created /home/remote with drwsr-x--- permission and
> "domain users" as group.
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> drwsr-x---  3 root    domain users 4096 May 30 09:41 remote
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> But still home directory is not created.
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> Thank You.
> 
> 
> gsumk

Any chance you can post the global part of the smb.conf ?
What OS ?
What Samba version ?

Rowland