From 8f8a9f01909ba29e2b781310baeeaaddc3f15f0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gerald W. Carter" Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:09:40 -0500 Subject: Moving docs tree to docs-xml to make room for generated docs in the release tarball. (This used to be commit 9f672c26d63955f613088489c6efbdc08b5b2d14) --- docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/nishomedir.xml | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/nishomedir.xml (limited to 'docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/nishomedir.xml') diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/nishomedir.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/nishomedir.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..45c451197e --- /dev/null +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/nishomedir.xml @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ + + + Get the home share server from a NIS map. For + UNIX systems that use an automounter, the user's home directory + will often be mounted on a workstation on demand from a remote + server. + + When the Samba logon server is not the actual home directory + server, but is mounting the home directories via NFS then two + network hops would be required to access the users home directory + if the logon server told the client to use itself as the SMB server + for home directories (one over SMB and one over NFS). This can + be very slow. + + This option allows Samba to return the home share as + being on a different server to the logon server and as + long as a Samba daemon is running on the home directory server, + it will be mounted on the Samba client directly from the directory + server. When Samba is returning the home share to the client, it + will consult the NIS map specified in + and return the server + listed there. + + Note that for this option to work there must be a working + NIS system and the Samba server with this option must also + be a logon server. + +no + -- cgit