There are two things you can do, 1. for homes share, add "path = /path/to/home/%S" 2. for homes share, change mask from 0775 to 0700 This may help but may not the way you are looking for. ------------ Banyan He Blog: http://www.rootong.com Email: banyan at rootong.com On 2012-11-19 5:10 PM, Bonnie B Mtengwa wrote: > I have a CentOS6.3 SAMBA file server. All the users are on a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Controller and authentication is done using Winbind integration on SAMBA . > > > > Everything works well except that if someone logs on to the Samba Server, they see all the shared folders there and also a folder with their own name %USER%. This Folder is not accessible, one cannot enter into this folder, I have noticed that it's not being automatically created in the home folder : > > i.e /home/%USER%/ is not there. > > > > > > > > > > My smb.conf is as follows > > > > workgroup = Domain0 > > security = ads > > realm = Domain.com > > > > encrypt passwords = yes > > preferred master = no > > > > template shell = /bin/bash > > template homedir = /home/%D/%U > > winbind separator = $ > > ; template primary group = "Domain Users" > > winbind uid = 600-20000 > > winbind gid = 600-20000 > > winbind use default domain = yes > > winbind nested groups = yes > > winbind enum users = yes > > winbind enum groups = yes > > enhanced browsing = yes > > winbind offline logon = false > > password server = dc.domain.com > > > > [homes] > > > > create mask = 0775 > > directory mask = 0775 > > browseable = no > > comment = Home Directories > > valid users = %U > > writable = yes > > > > > > anyone who can help me on this? > > > > Bonnie > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >