On 03/07/12 08:40, steve wrote:
On 02/07/12 23:44, Lukasz Zalewski wrote:
On 02/07/2012 21:20, steve wrote:
On 02/07/12 18:50, Lukasz Zalewski wrote:
On 02/07/12 17:20, steve wrote:
On 02/07/12 17:49, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 17:39 +0200, steve wrote:
Hi Steve,
Maybe I have misunderstood what you are trying to do but if you already
have automounter doing the right thing - maybe for the sake of argument
mapping
/home2/students/year7/year7a/student1
/home2/students/year7/year7a/student2
...
...
/home2/students/year13/year13a/student2500
to
/homes/student1
/homes/student2
...
...
/homes/student250
then you need only [homes] share in the smb.conf,
and then (similarly to Matthieu's suggestion) provide
\\servername\%username%
for homeDirectory attribute (and profilePath if you want roaming
profiles)?
HTH
L
Hi Lukasz
Hi Steve
No, you have understood perfectly
Is you [homes] a winbind [homes]?
No, We do not use winbind at all. Our main directory service is still
openldap (which is used on all of the linux infrastructure + legacy s3
domain) and Samba4 is used purely as a Windows DC. We have plans to move
to only Samba4 directory service but that will take some time
If so, we'd rather avoid having everyone in the same folder even if they
are only links to the real data. We'd like to separate students from
e.g. [staff] [admin] [webstuff] ... if only for readability purposes e.g.
In our case the separation is done on the posix permission/group
membership and physical location of the data - staff and students live
on the separate partitions/volumes
We do do a separation trick (akin to the symlinks that you mentioned but
slightly coarse grained) for profiles again through automounter maps.
Our profiles stanza is smb.conf is
[profiles]
path = /profiles/%G
and /profiles will include
/profiles/staff
/profiles/ug
profiles/msc
...
But again single smb share
[students]
path = /home/students/data
read only = No
browsable = No
then
ln -s /home2/students/year7/year7a/student1 /home/students/data/student1
In AD that becomes:
unixHomeDirectory: /home2/students/year7/year7a/student1
homeDirectory: \\server\students\student1
homeDrive: Z:
How does that look?
Cheers and thanks for your time,
Steve
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