[KLUG Members] Sharing out unix home directory via sam

Adam Tauno Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Thu Dec 22 04:16:38 EST 2005


>Sharing out unix home directory via samba.  Home directory is /home/%
>username% .

?  No,  create a [homes] section.  Whatever Samba documentation you are 
using os out of date.

 >However, samba insists on sharing this directory as /home/%
>domain%/%username% .  

Because that (%domain%\%username%) *IS* the CIFS username

>So a user can see their home directory as server
>%username% from windows.  But, when they click on it, they get an error
>and the samba log says that the share /home/%domain%/%username% doesn't
>exist.

Because it doesn't.


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