Before your users can access Samba services, they must have rights to one or more work directories on the Samba server.
There are various kinds of work areas. They might be private, shared by a group, or publicly available. Home directories are usually private (see Providing Private Home Directory Access), whereas collaboration directories are shared by a group. Later in this section is an example for creating a shared work area and providing access to it (Creating a Share for Group Access: A POSIX Example).
You can create home directories on NCP/NSS volumes automatically when you create users in eDirectory. See Creating Home Directories Using iManager 2.5.
On traditional Linux volumes, you should create the directories after the users are enabled for Linux access (LUM) and Samba. This will ensure that the required access rights are automatically assigned. For more information, see Logging In to Create Home Directories and Using Linux User Management Commands to Create Home Directories.