Re: Samba and NetInfo and NIS and LDAP and ... (fwd)

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl@switchboard.net)
Tue, 7 Apr 1998 17:30:53 +0100 (BST)

Date:	Tue, 7 Apr 1998 17:30:53 +0100 (BST)
From:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@switchboard.net>
To:	"Gerald W. Carter" <cartegw@Eng.Auburn.EDU>
Subject: Re: Samba and NetInfo and NIS and LDAP and ... (fwd)
In-Reply-To: <352A4818.5D907A2B@eng.auburn.edu>

On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Gerald W. Carter wrote:

> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >
> > how about \\server\profiles, which _is_ needed. i'm trying to
> > encourage people to move away from \\server\homes\profile and to move
> > to \\server\profiles\%U because of the substitution problems that occur
> > with the [homes] share: the stupid microsoft clients maintain the
> > connection to [homes] in a background process...
> >
>
> Only if they have a separate share for the profiles though. Help me out
> on this one. The smb.conf man pages indicate that the default value for
> the logon path is OK.

i thought i'd changed the default to \\%N\profiles\%U. looking at the
source, i obviously haven't.

> Is the correct? If so then you can still store
> the profile in the \\server\<username> ( just not \\server\homes )

no, \\server\username is even worse: until the user actually logs in, this
share doesn't exist. because NT can connect to a machine and "browse" it
under the IPC$ share before the [homes] service has been created, or even
worse, if the [homes] service has been mapped to the guest account
(because the initial connection was to IPC$)...

you get the picture...

anyway: it's all a horrible mess that needs sorting out.

> Default:
> logon path = \\\\%N\\%U\\profile

oops, i don't recommend this.

ouch. my tendons are hurting again. time to stop typing.