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Hi all, I have an interesting situation that I admit I have cause by
accident for convenience of creating user accounts. At my school I have two Samba servers running
LDAP one is PDC and the other is BDC.
The PDC houses the home folders for the high school and the junior high
students and the BDC keeps the home directories for the elementary buildings. Both servers are located in the same building and
ip subnet. On
the PDC I use webmin to create user accounts for
everybody in the school district. Too allow
webmin on the PDC server to create user account and
home directory for all users in the district I use a nfs
mount the home directories of the elementary staff and students from the BDC to
the home folder of PDC server. This
allows me to create staff and student accounts centrally. The problem with this is since I have the BDC home folders
mounted with nfs under home directory of the PDC
sometimes the elementary user accounts maps the home directory on the PDC when
it should be mapping to the BDC instead. When the elementary users H: drive
maps through samba through the nfs mount back to the
BDC I get io errors in Windows. I use kixtart for my login script and I have building groups setup
for all buildings to use as check for specific building resources. Then I use elementary groups to run a check
on where to map their home drive. This
way I hard code the bdc server name to the user home share
instead of using a variable to this.
Here is the strange part most of the time this works pretty well, but
for some reason occasionally a elementary user maps to the pdc
server instead of the bdc which causes windows io errors on the network drive. I believe what is happening is Windows 2000
and Windows XP are trying map their home drive their self from their user
profile instead of using what I try to set from the login script. Does anybody got any ideas? Another thing would be helpful is I really do
not care what server the elementary users access their home drive I just would
like to know if it is possible to share nfs mount
through samba without any io errors? Thanks in advance -Glenn |