On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For almost 10 years our school has been using samba as a PDC to provide a > network drive for each of our students,. Now I need to install a domain > member server (DMS) to share the load. I am running samba 3.0.28 on > Fedora 7 using the tdbsam backend on the PDC. I have successfully brought > up a samba DMS using winbind and the idmap_rid backend. > > I want to have all new students use the DMS for their roaming profiles and > for their network drive. Upon first logon of a new user, a directory is > automatically created for the user in the profile share on the DMS. > However, I don’t know how to cause the home directory to be created on the > DMS for the network drive. On XP Pro, the user home share shows up on the > DMS, but is not accessible because the directory does not exist. > > If at this point, I copy the roaming profile directory for the user (which > is empty) to the home directory, then the home directory is now present > with the proper ownership and the home drive is now usable by the user. > > e.g. on the DMS, with userid “mark” > > cp –a /var/samba/profiles/mark /home > > The [homes] share on the DMS is > > [homes] > Path = /home/%U > comment = Home Directories > browseable = no > writable = yes > available = yes > public = no > > So my question is how can I get the home directory for a user created with > the proper ownership the first time the user signs in? Is there any kind > of script that can be invoked on the DMS? Is there any way winbind can > create the home directory when it creates the UID/GID for the user?
use pam_mkhomedir for that purpose: ftp://ftp.eu.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/sag-pam_mkhomedir.html -- Udo Rader bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at
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