I work for a school dist, and I am having a bit of trouble with the Student
Server We have about 3000 students all with their own accounts. I had the
samba server setup to share their home directories but their home
directories are the same as their login name. So jamie.mcparland would be an
Not a bad idea. Problem is we have kids sharing all the computers so we
can't be mapping their home dirs to a drive letter. We could map the homes
share but then we still have the problem of all the 3000 folders showing up
and you have to dig through them for yours.
It would work If we had
are you looking for "hide unreadable = Yes" ?
hide unreadable (S)
This parameter prevents clients from seeing the
existance of files that cannot be read. Defaults to
off.
Default: hide unreadable = no
~ Daniel
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Thanks for the quick response.. The
Here's the Homes excerpt from my samba configuration...
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
username = %S
writeable = Yes
create mask = 0744
force create mode = 0775
directory mask = 0750
browseable =
Hey That did the trick! Thanks SO MUCH to all who offered suggestions.
Heres a recap for the mailing list archives.
If your user names are Longer than 13 chars windows 9X doesn't play to well
with them. Win 9X truncates the share name and so it says the share is not a
valid name when you click
