soft link to homes directory in root directory

[jamesd47]

I have an assortment of soft links to the share that is marked as the SMB home directory appearing in the root directory of the server. As you can see from the snippet below, it does not appear to be related to the the version of FreeNAS because the date/time stamp spans multiple years. For what it is worth, this machine is on FreeNAS-11.3-U1. I think the date/time stamps correlate with reboots or when the SMB service is restarted, but I would not bet money on it.

Is this something that the samba_server or pam.mkhomedir is doing?

I searched the forums and the JIRA bug tracker with no luck, so I apologize if this is a well-known behavior.

Code:

lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Mar 25 19:25 home -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Mar 21 09:30 home.rNAv2A -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Mar 11 21:55 home.A5q+aA -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Mar 11 21:47 home.07DiQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Feb  4 12:22 home.jgYVUg -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Jan 14 08:03 home.uIIsKQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Jan  6 09:15 home.EvDEtg -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Dec 12 21:19 home.C3mAhA -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Dec  2 07:59 home.fk4MjQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Nov 29 20:43 home.b2e1QA -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Nov 29 20:15 home.pOVVA -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Nov 29 20:10 home.uL0GIQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Oct 20  2019 home.zb87kQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Oct 13  2019 home.wxb1yA -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Sep 15  2019 home.0zR96w -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Sep  6  2019 home.yqvJjg -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Sep  6  2019 home.IV7pqQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Sep  5  2019 home.0Vihog -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Sep  5  2019 home.Muxegg -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Mar  4  2019 home.n+usqg -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Mar  3  2019 home.TRUpPg -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Sep 24  2018 home.eucnMw -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Jul 14  2018 home.ovWfJQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Jun 26  2018 home.bW0H+A -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Jun 26  2018 home.ck0FDg -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Apr 30  2018 home.yr2PLg -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Mar 19  2018 home.x1Ul4A -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Mar 18  2018 home.WbFr4Q -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Mar 12  2018 home.lgfaQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Mar 12  2018 home.e1SCSw -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Jan 13  2018 home.Irci9g -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Jan 13  2018 home.5al8yA -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Jan 13  2018 home.9eU70A -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Dec 24  2017 home.3aOdqQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Dec 10  2017 home.I9VKOA -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Oct 10  2017 home.s5U1AQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Oct  8  2017 home.aglK7A -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Oct  8  2017 home.RCCqWg -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Sep 29  2017 home.dJoGhQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Sep 12  2017 home.uFrpnQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Aug  7  2017 home.sgPEgw -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Jul 29  2017 home.iGGBFQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Mar 23  2017 home.2DXASQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Feb 17  2017 home.MnddOQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Feb 17  2017 home.t3iE6A -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Feb 17  2017 home.WzJBZw -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Feb 17  2017 home.BagyDA -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Feb 15  2017 home.r6MuSA -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Jan 29  2017 home.pCUAYg -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Dec 21  2016 home.d4IjGg -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Dec 21  2016 home.VmZRMA -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Dec 21  2016 home.fVUPg -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Dec 21  2016 home.Hc0e9w -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Dec 11  2016 home.lkWilQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Dec 11  2016 home.0oMBqQ -> /mnt/data0/Homes
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody  nobody    10 Dec 11  2016 nonexistent
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Dec 11  2016 home.xqPW+g -> /mnt/data0/Homes
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    wheel     16 Dec 11  2016 home.+hrRaw -> /mnt/data0/Homes