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diff --git a/docs/smbdotconf/misc/nishomedir.xml b/docs/smbdotconf/misc/nishomedir.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..84032a1b15 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/smbdotconf/misc/nishomedir.xml @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +<samba:parameter name="nis homedir" + context="G" + type="boolean" + advanced="1" developer="1" + xmlns:samba="http://samba.org/common"> +<description> + <para>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. </para> + + <para>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.</para> + + <para>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 <link linkend="HOMEDIRMAP"> + <parameter moreinfo="none">homedir map</parameter></link> and return the server + listed there.</para> + + <para>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.</para> +</description> +<value type="default">no</value> +</samba:parameter> |