Samba Mapped Drives

From: Charles Kendricks (cktech_at_charter.net)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: 8 Jul 2004 07:05:22 -0700

I have a samba PDC running on RH9 kernel 2.6.4 with samba 2.2.7. I
already have the smb.conf set up to map the users home directory to
the B: drive on the client workstations. I would like to take this
one step further and use samba to create a shortcut on the client
desktop to the B: drive, so that when the users (who, by the way are
middle schoolers) log into the domain, they will be presented with an
icon on their desktop which is a shortcut to their home directory on
the samba server. I am hoping this can be accomplished with a logon
script of some kind.

My current configuration file is:

# samba configuration file
#
[global]
 
        ;basic server settings
        workgroup = TAS
        netbios name = dali
        ;server string = Samba PDC running %v
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192
SO_RCVBUF=8192
 
        ;PDC and master browser settings
        os level = 64
        preferred master = yes
        local master = yes
        domain master = yes
        domain logons = yes
 
        ;security and logging settings
        security = user
        encrypt passwords = yes
        log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
        log level = 2
        max log size = 50
        hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
 
        ;user profiles and home directory
        logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U
        logon script = logon.bat
 
        ;attempt to map home directory to drive H
        logon drive = B:
        logon home = \\%L\%u
 
# ==== shares ====
 
[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        path = /home/%u
        browseable = no
        writeable = yes
 
[profiles]
        path = /home/samba/profiles
        writeable = yes
        browseable = no
        create mask = 0600
        directory mask = 0700
 
[netlogon]
        comment = Network Logon Service
        path = /home/netlogon
        read only = yes
        browseable = no
        write list = root

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