<samba:parameter name="logon home"
context="G"
advanced="1" developer="1"
xmlns:samba="http://samba.org/common">
<listitem>
<para>This parameter specifies the home directory
location when a Win95/98 or NT Workstation logs into a Samba PDC.
It allows you to do </para>
<para><prompt moreinfo="none">C:\></prompt>
<userinput moreinfo="none">NET USE H: /HOME</userinput>
</para>
<para>from a command prompt, for example.</para>
<para>This option takes the standard substitutions, allowing
you to have separate logon scripts for each user or machine.</para>
<para>This parameter can be used with Win9X workstations to ensure
that roaming profiles are stored in a subdirectory of the user's
home directory. This is done in the following way:</para>
<para><command moreinfo="none">logon home = \\%N\%U\profile</command></para>
<para>This tells Samba to return the above string, with
substitutions made when a client requests the info, generally
in a NetUserGetInfo request. Win9X clients truncate the info to
\\server\share when a user does <command moreinfo="none">net use /home</command>
but use the whole string when dealing with profiles.</para>
<para>Note that in prior versions of Samba, the <link linkend="LOGONPATH">
<parameter moreinfo="none">logon path</parameter></link> was returned rather than
<parameter moreinfo="none">logon home</parameter>. This broke <command
moreinfo="none">net use /home</command> but allowed profiles outside the home directory.
The current implementation is correct, and can be used for profiles if you use
the above trick.</para>
<para>This option is only useful if Samba is set up as a logon
server.</para>
<para>Default: <command moreinfo="none">logon home = "\\%N\%U"</command></para>
<para>Example: <command moreinfo="none">logon home = "\\remote_smb_server\%U"</command></para>
</listitem>
</samba:parameter>