On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 12:17 -0700, Mont Rothstein wrote: > I made a possibly bad assumption that Chris was adding users by some > mechanism other than on the unix box, and therefore that the user's > home directories had not been created. > > Still, your strong response seems to imply that even in this case > there is some way to have the unix home directories auto-created. > I've pored through the samba docs, googled, and asked questions. The > three answers I found/got were those that I listed. > > If there is in fact a way to do this would you be so kind as to point > me to the section of the doc that discusses it? I can't find it. > > Thanks, > -Mont > > > On 4/6/06, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 09:51 -0700, Mont Rothstein wrote: > > Do your user's home directories already exist? Then need > to. Samba does > > not by defult auto-create them. > > > > If you want to auto-create them options include: > > 1) A preexec in the [homes] section > ---- > shouldn't be necessary > ---- > > 2) Create them as part of the add user script > ---- > shouldn't be necessary > ---- > > 3) Use pam_mkhomedir > ---- > shouldn't be necessary > > Samba documentation covers this very clearly. A reference to > the > documentation would probably be better than the above advice. > > see Samba 3 Official HowTo > > http://www.samba.org/samba/docs > > FWIW - I see neither a [homes] or [profiles] share in your > setup and I > didn't see mention of the fact that you have 'joined' the > Windows > computers to the domains. ---- since his [global] configuration included no definition of 'security =' one has to assume the default of 'security = user' which means that there should have been a local UNIX account with a home directory already. Whatever tools you use to create the accounts in the first place should make the user home directory.
had he listed something like winbindd, security = server|domain|ads then a mechanism such as you described would probably be useful. For a reference to documentation, I would suppose for his purposes, this example in the 'By Example' would be appropriate - see item #10 http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-ByExample/small.html Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba