samba-mirror/docs-xml/smbdotconf/logon/logonhome.xml

<samba:parameter name="logon home"
                 context="G"
                 type="string"
                 xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
<description>
	<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:\&gt;</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 <smbconfoption name="logon path"/> 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>
	Disable this feature by setting <smbconfoption name="logon home">""</smbconfoption> - using the empty string.
	</para>

	<para>
	This option is only useful if Samba is set up as a logon server.
	</para>
</description>

<value type="default">\\%N\%U</value>
<value type="example">\\remote_smb_server\%U</value>
</samba:parameter>