What it seems to boil down to is that pam_mkhomedir.so is not creating the home directory. But why not?Do you have an entry in /etc/pam.d/login like this:
Any help will be appreciated. And if there are more appropriate mailing lists, to wit something more specifically winbind related, I'd appreciate a pointer.
session optional /lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so
You may need to rebuild it to create directories in /home/DOMAIN/user. I had to rebuild it to allow selection of creating a local /home directory or a network mounted directory. It shouldn't be too hard.
Forrest
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