[Samba] User Home Folders

[Rowland Penny]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 13:54:04 -0500
Marco Shmerykowsky via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> 
> Following the "User Home Folders" page on the wiki using
> Group Policy
> 
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/User_Home_Folders
> 
> I see this page was last updated in March 2017.
> Not sure if anything has changed.
> 
> Although I can access the shares, the %LogonUser% directory
> does not seem to be automatically generating.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Share definition:
> 
> [users]
> path = /server/users
> read only = no
> force create mode 0600
> force directory mode = 0700
> 
> # chgrp "Domain Users" /server/users
> # chmod 2750 /server/users
> 
> 

They aren't autocreated by default, add this
to /etc/pam.d/common-session

session    required   pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0022

Rowland