[Samba] No Roaming profiles local only

David.Grudek at anixter.com David.Grudek at anixter.com
Tue Nov 11 16:10:22 GMT 2003


On a windows server there is a local profile by default unless you tell it 
to have a roaming profile.  I want to have the same thing happen.  All the 
machines say that they used the local copy   then a couple seconds later 
it says it could not copy to the server and any changes will not be saved. 
 I know that I could let it be a roaming and switch it to a local later 
but in a larger enterprise that is too much work. 

I tried this in my smb.conf on debian testing with samba 3.0

logon home = ""
logon path = ""

I used to use this on redhat  8 with samba 2.28a before and it worked.

and     logon home = c:\documents and settings\%u
             logon path = c:\documents and settings\%u

I saw this on a web site and so I tried it but it did not work. 

I bought the book called The official Samba 3 howto and reference guide. 
What a great book but it says in there if you want to disable roaming 
profiles, there are three ways to do it.  Do it in the smb.conf file but 
does not show how just says to do it.  Then it says to do it in the 
windows registry but this is not practical to do to 100 workstations.  Or 
to leave as roaming and then switch to local which is also not practical 
to do to 100 workstations.   There should be a way to just make it do 
local on the fly as it creates the profile as windows does it.  I would 
like to know how your smb.conf file should look in order to accomplish 
this.  Any help would be appreciated. 



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