Goutham
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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.
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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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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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