[CentOS] SAMBA and Active Directory Intergration Problem

Tue Nov 20 09:04:08 UTC 2012
Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com>

On 11/19/2012 01:10 AM, Bonnie B Mtengwa wrote:
> 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.


That's correct.  Samba does not automatically create home directories.

One solution for this was posted on the samba list years ago:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-June/106958.html