[K12OSN] Practical limit to number of samba shares?

[Jim Hays]

The login script can contain this instead:

net use x: \\samba.server.ip.no\homes

No need to differentiate for the individual user.  This will connect 
directly to the users home directory.


Scott Sherrill wrote:

>> We have /home mapped to H:\  but it would be more elegant to have H:\ be
>> mapped directly to the student home folder. Does anyone know of any
>> reason not to set up 500 samba shares on one of our k12 severs?
>
>
> I think you can automatically with Samba.
>
> try something like:
>
> [homes]
>    comment = Home Directories
>    ;browseable = no
>    writable = yes
>    valid users = %S
>    users = %S
>    create mode = 0664
>    directory mode = 0775
>
>
>
> then in your login script do a:
> net use h: \\sambaserver\@userid"
>
> otherwise you will have to continually maintain the shares when you 
> add/remove a user.  The above is all automatic.
>
> If you still wanted an all homes share you could do:
>
> [allhomes]
>         comment = All Homes
>         path = /home
>         ;browesable = yes
>         writeable = no
>
>
> Scott