Does the /home/%U folder exist, and does the user have rwx access to it? I found that just having the /home folder exist is not enough. Since users' home folders do not get created when authenticating to an NT domain, you have to create them somehow. I did this by putting "preexec = mkdir --mode=700 /export/homes/%S" under my [homes] share. I also put "path = /home/%S" as suggested in the Samba howto to use %S instead of %U, though I don't know why.
James Dinkel -----Original Message----- From: Chandra Sornam Hi Samba Experts I raised this problem where its still waiting to be resolved. Would be greatly appreciated if I can get some feedback. I did get a bit of help but looked like it ended on the person's too hard basket. Thanks Chandra Have installed Samba 3 on a Linux box with Centos OS to be a file server. Getting its authentication from a NT4 PDC. Have created samba shares and members of the NT4 PDC group can successfully access the group. The only problem is users cannot authenticate their home share onmor the Linux server. A webinfo -r of the domain user gives the uid of the group the user is a member of. The user can access the share successfully as well. Have gone through the smb.conf and other config files, and done extensive search on the net to figure out the problem but have hit a blank wall. There are no noticeable errors in the log files that I can see either. Samba Config file as below [global] workgroup = domain netbios aliases = test server string = test File Server security = DOMAIN password server = scnz-nt02 scnz-nt01 client lanman auth = No client plaintext auth = No log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 smb ports = 139 445 enable privileges = yes name resolve order = wins host lmhosts bcast server signing = auto socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 preferred master = No local master = No domain master = No dns proxy = No wins server = 172.16.21.10 172.16.10.10 ldap ssl = no default service = files idmap uid = 16777216-33554431 idmap gid = 16777216-33554431 winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes template shell = /bin/bash admin users = chansorn, nathmawk cups options = raw winbind use default domain = no [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /home/%U valid users = %S read only = No browseable = No writeable = yes create mode = 0775 [AESData] comment = AESData path = /data/AESData read only = no force directory mode = 0770 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba