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Updated the docs to warn users against using uppercase usernames when… #424

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Expand Up @@ -1041,7 +1041,13 @@ provides more details for each configurable option.
| Name | string | | Enter a mandatory name for the share. |
| | | | |
+--------------------------------+---------------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Use as home share | checkbox | | Set to allow this share to hold user home directories. Only one share can be the homes share. |
| Use as home share | checkbox | | Set to allow this share to hold user home directories. Only one share can be the home share. Note that |
| | | | lower case names for user home directories are strongly recommended, as Samba maps usernames to all lower |
| | | | case. For example, the username John will be mapped to a home directory named john. If the :guilabel:`Path` |
| | | | to the home share includes an upper case username, delete the existing user and recreate it in |
| | | | :menuselection:`Accounts --> Users` with an all lower case :guilabel:`Username`. Return to |
| | | | :menuselection:`Sharing --> SMB` to create the home share, and select the :guilabel:`Path` that contains |
| | | | the new lower case username. |
| | | | |
+--------------------------------+---------------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Default Permissions | checkbox | | When enabled, the ACLs grant read and write for owner or group and read-only for others. Only leave unset |
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