[Samba] Profiles on W2K and XP

[Martyn Ranyard]

I added the following lines to my smb.conf file to stop nt4 clients 
creating server profiles :

         logon path =
         logon home =

i.e. I created blank entries.  You could try that, or you could try one or 
more of the following...

escape or remove the spaces in the logon path you have.
make the path non-unc i.e. C:\Documents and Settings\%u
some configs won't work with %u, but will work with %U

At 06:28 PM 1/30/02 +0200, Ronen Baram wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've just setup my Samba PDC and tried to login with W2K clients.
>The only problem I have is that the W2K tells me that it cannot locate the 
>profile path and that a TEMP profile is being generate, which will delete 
>when the user will logout.
>
>Can someone help me configure the server in a way that the profiles would 
>be save on the CLIENTS (I don't want roaming profiles, and I don't want 
>the clients to save no profile data on the server...)
>
>My users don't even have home dir on the server...
>
>
>here is part of my smb.conf:
>
>[global]
>  workgroup = COREFLOW
>  netbios name = CCFS1
>  server string = Coreflow File Server 1 running Samba ver %v
>  encrypt passwords = Yes
>  log file = /var/log/samba/%I.log
>  max log size = 50
>  socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>  load printers = No
>  domain admin group = root
>  add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s /bin/false -M %u
>  logon script = logon.cmd
>  logon path = <file://\\%m\c\Documents>\\%m\c\Documents and Settings\%u
>  domain logons = Yes
>  os level = 64
>  domain master = True
>  dns proxy = No
>  wins support = Yes
>  create mask = 0770
>  directory mask = 0770
>
>
>[netlogon]
>  path = /usr/local/samba/lib/netlogon
>  write list = root
>
>[profiles]
>  path = /export/smb/ntprofile
>  read only = No
>  create mask = 0600
>  directory mask = 0700
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>       Ronen Baram
>
>System & Network Administrator
>Coreflow - Scientific Solutions ltd.
>P.O. box 626, Yokneam, 20692, Israel
>Tel: 972-4-9935757 ext. 117
>Fax: 972-4-9935858
>Web: <http://www.coreflow.com>www.coreflow.com
>Email: <mailto:ronen_b at coreflow.com>ronen_b at coreflow.com

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Martyn Ranyard