Home directory of users in AD

[davidep (Davide Principi)]

I just read this workaround by @EddieA

Fixed. I needed to sign in to one of the shares, and then magically my home directory appeared.

Try out Nethserver 7 RC1

OK, now we’re getting somewhere. I updated the db to have service correctly spelt, and re-booted. Yeah, yet again the shutdown stalled after showing: [OK] Reached target Shutdown. Now smb shows up in Services , but in Network Services: [image] A quick edit to switch it to ‘Green’ and away we go: [image] Now the question is, where is my home directory, as that is also supposed to be available. EDIT Fixed. I needed to sign in to one of the shares, and then magically my home d…

The home directory folder is created by oddjob_mkdir PAM module when the user establish a session the first time. That means the user log in by ssh, or create an authenticated connection with some service relying on PAM, like Samba.

I’m afraid we cannot fix this

…but we can document it /cc @docs_team