Hi there. I have samba primary domain controller up and running. It automatically creates a network shared drive (H on every windows computer according to each user. All that is good. I also have a public share called All Users configured in samba, how would I go for adding another logon script for it so windows users will get the mapped drive without having to manually configure it on each computer????


Thanks
Below my smb.conf

Instead of path = /home/shares/allusers
make a directory /shares/allusers and chmod -R 777 /shares as root
Change the path to /shares/allusers
read only = No
browsable = no

Get rid of [public] - it does not reference any directory
[public]
browseable = yes
public = yes



Restart samba and you should see allusers appear in your Windows machines

In the /home/samba/netlogon directory create a user.bat file where user is the name of an individual user name.
Add your share definitions
net time \\ttsvr /set /yes
net use L: \\ttsvr\allusers

do a unix2dos on this file so Windows can read it properly

To list shares that are available from the configured Samba server, execute the following command:

$ smbclient -L yourhostname

You should see a list of shares available on your server. If you do not, then something is incorrectly configured.

Do I need to add/change/edit #Default Logon at all???

Thank you!!!

You should get samba swat running. There is a wealth of information regarding how to do all this there.
e.g.

logon script (G)

This parameter specifies the batch file (.bat) or NT command file (.cmd) to be downloaded and run on a machine when a user successfully logs in. The file must contain the DOS style CR/LF line endings. Using a DOS-style editor to create the file is recommended.

The script must be a relative path to the [netlogon] service. If the [netlogon] service specifies a path of /usr/local/samba/netlogon, and logon script = STARTUP.BAT, then the file that will be downloaded is:

/usr/local/samba/netlogon/STARTUP.BAT

The contents of the batch file are entirely your choice. A suggested command would be to add NET TIME \\SERVER /SET /YES, to force every machine to synchronize clocks with the same time server. Another use would be to add NET USE U: \\SERVER\UTILS for commonly used utilities, or

NET USE Q: \\SERVER\ISO9001_QA

for example.

Note that it is particularly important not to allow write access to the [netlogon] share, or to grant users write permission on the batch files in a secure environment, as this would allow the batch files to be arbitrarily modified and security to be breached.

This option takes the standard substitutions, allowing you to have separate logon scripts for each user or machine.

This option is only useful if Samba is set up as a logon server.

Default: logon script =

Example: logon script = scripts\%U.bat