[Samba] AD home drive

[Rowland penny]

On 14/06/2019 11:30, Praveen Ghimire wrote:
> Hi Rowland,
>
> Initially I deposited the line towards the bottom but then it didn't work. The line wasn't getting enough attention so it decided to creep up a bit :)
> As suggested in the initial email, the box was a NT4 PDC which had the all the shares. The home drive pointed to /home/%U/samba.
>
> Looking at the logs, to me it looks like the default smb.conf template (as suggested by Louis) doesn't match the homes definition
>
> Regards,
>
> Praveen
>
>
My mistake, you want the users home directory created when the user 
connects via Samba, this doesn't work via PAM. You need to investigate 
the 'root preexec' parameter in 'man smb.conf'

Rowland