Creating Home Directories and other shares for AD users in samba

[Tim Holmes]

> 
> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:12 -0400, Tim Holmes wrote:
> > Thanks to the great help here and on the SAMBA List, I have gotten
samba
> > to work correctly to do what I need it to, allowing my windows AD
users
> > to access shares on the samba box without having to either create a
> > local (samba / linux) user or manually authenticate on the share.
> > This is GREAT NEWS
> >
> > Now,
> >
> > I have hit what I am sure is a linux permissions problem:
> >
> > When my user (timholmes) clicks on the samba server in the My
Network
> > Places window, I see the shares, In this case webroot, homes and
> > timholmes
> >
> > If I enter the timholmes share, it routes me to the directory where
the
> > home folders are supposed to be located, and showes me the one that
is
> > there, in this case it is a local linux user,  but I cannot create a
new
> > folder for myself or anything -- is that a process that must be done
> > manually, and if so, to what values do I set the owner, group and
> > permissions?
> 
> The /home directory is writable only by root.  If you want a unique
home
> directory for users, create the user under linux.  Can have shared
space
> that is open to guest users, but [homes] shouldn't be expected to work
> that way.

[Tim Holmes] 
To do this, would I create them with the same name as the windows user,
and specify no login? Or how would I set that up -- what I don't want to
get into is having to get them to tell me their password and manually
enter it in Linux