[Samba] Domain Member Server /home/user creation - help needed
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 dont 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? Mark Orenstein East Granby, CT School System -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Domain Member Server /home/user creation - help needed
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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Domain Member Server /home/user creation - help needed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [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? Yes, read the docs on this one -- I've seen it in there. What you may be missing is that generally whatever calls adduser/useradd/whatever your system calls it can be told what to use as a skel directory (a standard one is /etc/skel, but you can have more than one and use a flag to point it to the right one). HTH. - -- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer II |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH+k1Imb+gadEcsb4RAjUlAKCgvduEr1jp6FiF6pB4AyTy83NkKgCgiDaL kKz1v0p2gO3eF1CIKK2hkjk= =pcSp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
