On Monday 13 December 2004 15:31, Marc Petitmermet wrote: > > | First question: When "Home Directory" is not set in tdbsam > > | does samba just use the setting of "logon home" in smb.conf? > > | And when it's set does it ignore the smb.conf setting? > > > > You actually can't exlude these settings from the > > tdbsam records IIRC. I'd have to go back and look again > > to be sure. So the home directory path in the tdb record > > would always take precedence over the smb.conf settings. > > But like I say, I would have to double check this in the code. > > I would be really glad if you could check this. If what you say is true > than the example "Big 500 Users Example" makes just no sense to me. The
Not quite! The smb.conf setting is used in creating the user account entry in tdbsam. > example only uses a tdbsam backend and then the setting for logon home > and logon path could just be removed because it's the tdbsam which > counts. And when we cannot use variables in tdbsam I begin to wonder > what the advantages of a tdbsam backend against a smbpasswd file should > be. Is this somewhere documented which backend supports variables and > which backend supports the settings in smb.conf and since which version > of samba? Thanks, Jerry. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba