On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > Marcel Ritter wrote: > > > > Hi there! > > > > I recently set up a samba server with LDAP support. After some tests with > > different windows versions my profile was trashed. So I tried to store > > the profile in a subdirectory "%a" (which should resolve to the windows > > release WinNT Win2k etc.). Unfortunately this does not work when specified > > in LDAP. > > > > Is there a reason for this? > > > > I'd really like to use the %<var> statements in LDAP. I already hacked > > around a bit and it works for me (just copied one line!) - however I'd > > like to see it in the official release if there's no further technical > > problem I can't see by now. > > It has problems when you then store the expanded form - you lose the > LDAP magic on the first password change etc. > > To get around this, we came up with a way we have 'defaults' for certain > things, using the same stuff as the 'fudge it up' solution for > smbpasswd. Except we don't store the expanded strings back, unless they > are modified by a client.
Is there another way to store profiles from different windows versions in different directories? I saw this behaviour on Novell and I'd really like to use a similar feature with samba. > > Andrew Bartlett > Ciao, Marcel > -- > Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net > ---- Marcel Ritter Linux Betreuer Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen ---- Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.