[Samba] shares and the use of EnableLinkedConnections

[Ricardo Campos]

Hi, Luke and others.

Thanks, Luke, for your answer, but I expressed myself poorly when I asked
the question.

What we are trying to do is use logon.bat scripts - one for each user since
each one can have specific mappings.

We are using GPO, but the mappings are not performed automatically during
login, but rather when we configure the registry of each Windows client
machine (no matter which version) by setting the EnableLinkedConnections
parameter to 1, in the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System.

According to the research I did, this problem would have something to do
with UAC (User Account Control) in Windows, but I couldn't quite figure it
out.

Thank you for any help

Ricardo

Em ter., 11 de mar. de 2025 às 18:15, Luke Barone <lukebarone at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Hey Ricardo,
>
> The "AD" way of mapping drives is with Group Policy's Mapped Drives.
> Create a GPO at the same level of your users (or, preferably, at the domain
> root), call it something such as "Mapped drives". Edit it, and go to User
> Configuration -> Preferences -> Drive Maps. Right-click a blank area, and
> click "New -> Mapped drive". Fill out the form.
>
> To target only certain security groups, click on the [Common] tab, choose
> [x] Item Level Targeting, and build your query (i.e. User is in Security
> Group "GROUP_A")
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM Ricardo Campos via samba <
> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> We are testing a Samba configuration with AD and a File Server (FS), both
>> on Ubuntu machines.
>>
>> Unfortunately, the tests with shares are not working as expected.
>>
>> We configured a GPO so that logon.bat scripts with the desired mappings
>> are
>> automatically applied when the user logs into AD from a Windows desktop.
>> This, however, is not working.
>>
>> We discovered that setting the EnableLinkedConnections parameter to 1 in
>> the registry subkey
>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
>> of
>> the user's Windows machine makes the mapping work.
>>
>> I would like to know if the use of this parameter is mandatory (for all
>> versions of Windows) or if there are alternatives.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Ricardo
>>
>> PS. Since this seems to only have to do with the user's machine, I did not
>> include information about the Samba configuration(s (AD and File Server).
>> If necessary, please let me know.
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