On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:30:56PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We use winbind from Samba 2.2.3a on our Linux > CVS server so that PC users can authenticate to > the CVS servers using their Windows usernames. > > We use this option in smb.conf for calculating > our home directories: > > template homedir = "/home/%D/%U" > > One problem is that usernames here have spaces > in them, eg, my username is "mitch davis". This > leads to a home directory of "/home/MYCOMPANY/mitch davis", > which causes grief to many Linux programs.
Maybe having some more substitution parameters would be a neater solution to the problem. It would certainly avoid Yet Another Parameter being added to smb.conf. Perhaps %d/%u for domain and username with spaces, and %D/%U for spaces replaced with underscores? Tim.