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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Samba pre-install questions. Post 302348945 by fguy on Sunday 30th of August 2009 01:20:00 PM
Old 08-30-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Leppie
the [homes] share appears to have no directory assigned to it, i'm not sure the share will work like that. if you have more users logging on, you may want to set this share to be browseable as well (as you have not set the samba server to work as a domain controller as well).

check the permissions for this share as well with the ls command:
Code:
ls -ald /home/fred

okay rights to /home/fred were 755 rwxr-xto r-x, I changed them to 777 (overkill) so ls -ald /home/fred gives

drwxrwxrwx 2 fred fred 4096 2009-08-30 10:55 fred

anyways, I added path = /home/fred to the [homes] and no difference. I would not have though it was necessary anyway, as I thought [homes] was a generic thing which allowed properly defined windows users to map to their Unix home directories. After all, as fred in Windows I could map to that home directory without the path being specified, I just couldn't write to it.

ok I am assuming that /usr/sbin/smbd /restart is sufficient to implement any changes to smb.conf


edit: ok the whole point was to have an easy mechanism for transfering files. seeing as how I am already using ssh and putty, I eventually discovered sftp which does nicely what I couldn't get Samba to do. So the heat is off, eventually I'll revisit the Samba issue. Thanks anyways.

Last edited by fguy; 08-30-2009 at 11:08 PM..
 

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createhomedir(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 					  createhomedir(1)

NAME
createhomedir -- create and populate home directories on the local computer. SYNOPSIS
createhomedir [-scbalh] [-n directoryDomainName] [-u username] DESCRIPTION
createhomedir provides several options for creating and populating home directories. OPTIONS
-s creates home directories for server home paths only (default). -c creates home directories for local home paths only. -b creates home directories for both server and local home paths. -a creates home directories for users defined in all directory domains of the server's search path. -l creates home directories for users defined in the local directory domain. -L causes the created home directory to be localized. -n directoryDomainName creates home directories for users defined in a specific directory domain in the server's search path. -u username creates a home directory for a specific user defined in the domain(s) identified in the -a, -l, or -n parameter. If you omit the -a, -l, and -n parameters when you use the -u parameter, -a is assumed. -i reads username list from standard input and creates specified home directories. Each username should be on its own line. -h usage help. FILES
/usr/sbin/createhomedir location of tool CAVEATS
When using the -a option, search limits of various directory servers (such as Open Directory or Active Directory) can prevent all possible home directories from being created. In this case, you may need to specify the usernames explicitly. Mac OS X May 31, 2019 Mac OS X
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