Help Needed configuring Samba on Webserver

[Trevor "TeC" Christian]

>>
>> As it stands right now, I use the following procedure to make this work,
>> which is not a problem for a class of 5 students, but for a large class
>> it turns into a large amount of work
>>
>> Procedure to setup student for samba access
>>
>> 1 Create the user directory on the webserver
>> 2. Create the linux user - system/users and groups
>> 3. Create a public_html directory under their home directory
>> 4. chmod home directory 755
>> 5. chmod public_html directory 755
>> 6. chown home directory -R to user
>> 7. chgrp home directory to apache
>> 8. create samba user -- system-config-samba
>> 9. input windows password into samba as samba password
>>
>>  
>>
> Well since you have the steps so well setup, why not just make a 
> script that accepts the students name,username and password and then 
> goes through steps 1-9?
>
>> everything should then work
>>
>> This procedure works.  It takes 3 - 5 minutes per itineration, which
>> gets tedious at best.  The problem comes in the fact that next year we
>> want to implement a similar system for storing all of our user files on
>> our samba file server, and creating 250 accounts like this is just out
>> of the question.  
>
>
This may be of little assistance, but wouldn't placing or including the 
previously mentioned directories with the set permissions in /etc/skel 
place the same within the newly added users home directories upon creation?

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