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samba with ldap and home directories

Dear Experts:

If samba domain controller is configured with fds/openldap as a passwd backend how to create the home directories for the users and make it to available for the users. Please help.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi!

Setup 'pam_mkhomedir' to create the home directories for you.
Ref: http://sheltren.com/selinux_pam_mkhomedir

More reading about OpenLDAP and PAM:
Ref: http://www.boosten.org/creating-my-own-ldap-directory-part-3/
Ref: http://www.rjsystems.nl/en/2100-openldap-client.php

Regards, Tobias
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SIr, Thank you very much. in my case all the clients are of windows , the article provided by you is interesting and it holds good for linux as clients similarly i am looking for the windows clients , when the user login from windows system they should get their home directory, Please please help me to do so. Thanks in advance.
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