Samba Question -- Users cannot access home directories

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Holmes" <tholmes at mcaschool.net>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:33 AM
Subject: Samba Question -- Users cannot access home directories


> Good Morning Everyone:
>
> I am running into a bit of a problem,
>
> Yesterday, I set up my webserver with samba so that I can authenticate
> against the active directory as per the instructions in
> http://www.billboswellconsulting.com/files/Authenticating%20Linux%20desk
> tops%20with%20AD.pdf
>
> When I log in to the fedora box using my Domain admin username and
> password, it works nicely,  the problem that I am hitting is that any
> user trying to access the box from the network can hit the two shares
> (which happen to contain the websites (for editing purposes) but cannot
> access their home directories.
>
> There are really two parts to my question
>
> 1. How do I get them to be able to access their home directories.  (this
> will be applied today on another machine which is a file server)
>
>
> 2. Because this is a webserver, how do I make those home directories go
> away as the users don't need them on this box, but will need them on the
> file server that I am going to be working on)
>
> So far my research hasn't turned up any clues to this, though
> admittedly, I have about 1000 pages of reading left to go.
>
> Thanks for all the excellent help I have already received.
>
>
> Tim Holmes

Can you post your /etc/samba/smb.conf file?  Does it have a [homes] section?

Thomas