1 <samba:parameter xmlns:samba="http://samba.org/common">
2 <term><anchor id="NISHOMEDIR"/>nis homedir (G)</term>
3 <listitem><para>Get the home share server from a NIS map. For
4 UNIX systems that use an automounter, the user's home directory
5 will often be mounted on a workstation on demand from a remote
8 <para>When the Samba logon server is not the actual home directory
9 server, but is mounting the home directories via NFS then two
10 network hops would be required to access the users home directory
11 if the logon server told the client to use itself as the SMB server
12 for home directories (one over SMB and one over NFS). This can
15 <para>This option allows Samba to return the home share as
16 being on a different server to the logon server and as
17 long as a Samba daemon is running on the home directory server,
18 it will be mounted on the Samba client directly from the directory
19 server. When Samba is returning the home share to the client, it
20 will consult the NIS map specified in <link linkend="HOMEDIRMAP">
21 <parameter moreinfo="none">homedir map</parameter></link> and return the server
24 <para>Note that for this option to work there must be a working
25 NIS system and the Samba server with this option must also
26 be a logon server.</para>
28 <para>Default: <command moreinfo="none">nis homedir = no</command></para>