Re: smb.conf for around 2500 users

[steve <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/07/12 21:17, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> On 07/02/2012 08:39 AM, steve wrote:
> > Samba4 with Linux and Windows clients wanting to get the same home
> > folder data.
> >
> > Hi
> > A college has students arranged with Linux home directories according
> > to which year they belong to and which class within that year, a or b
> > or whatever, they belong to e.g.:
> > /home2/students/year7/year7a/student1
> > /home2/students/year7/year7a/student2
> > ...
> > ...
> > /home2/students/year13/year13a/student2500
> >
> > To get at the same data on windows, I was thinking of a share for each
> > of the classes e.g.
> > [year7a]
> > path = /home2/students/year7/year7a
> > read only = No
> > browsable = No
> > ...
> > ...
> > [year13a]
> > path = /home2/students/year13/year13a
> > read only = No
> > browsable = No
> >
> > and mapping a drive letter to the share e.g.
> > map Z: to \\server\year7a\%USERNAME%
> >
> > That would make lots of shares but would make it readable to non admins.
> >
> > Is there a limit on the number of shares per installation?
> > Any other ideas of how to go about it? e.g. I thought about OU's but
> > we do not want to administer from Windows.

> Did you thought about making a new directory ie.
> /home2/students/data with a link to each real user and then sharing data
> like that
>
> [data]
> path = /home2/students/data
> read only = No
> browsable = No
>
> And then use ADUC or ldbedit to specify the connect to attribute and set
> it to \\servername\data\%username%

Hi Matthieu,
That looks promising. Will cifs symlink, or are we still at ext4 level here?

Are you saying that a real student e.g.
/home2/students/year7/year7a/steve
has a symlink in
/home2/students/data
??
Would that be e.g. for student steve:
ln -s /home2/students/year7/year7a/steve /home2/students/data/steve
(or is the link the other way around?)

All students then have a link in
/home2/students/data/<name>
irrespective of which class they are in.

For all students, I then map, e.g.  Z:
 to
\\servername\data\%USERNAME%

Am I close?

Cheers and thanks for your patience.
Steve
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