[Samba] how to automatically create the home directory

[Rowland penny]

On 10/10/2019 13:14, LORANG Geert wrote:
> On 10/10/2019 12:26, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
>> There are three ways, depending on how the user connects.
>>
>> You can manually create a home directory for each user.
>>
>> If the user actually logs into the unix domain member, you can lever PAM
>> to create the home directory the first the user connects
>>
>> If the user only connects over Samba, then you need to create the users
>> home directory with a script. Myself and Louis wrote such a script,
>> would you like a copy ?
>>
>> Rowland
> On Debian we have enabled mkhomedir via pam-auth-update, this puts
> following line in /etc/pam.d/common-session-noninteractive:
>
> session required                        pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel
> umask=0022
>
> Together with "obey pam restrictions = Yes" in /etc/samba/smb.conf this
> has been working great for us on both Windows, Linux and macOS for many
> years already.
>
> Home directories get automatically created when users first connect to
> the smb share / server.
>
> HTH;
>
> Cheers,
> Geert

Sorry, that doesn't work for me either ;-)

Rowland