[Samba] Roaming profile, esp. laptops

[Joseph E. Werle]

You could use mandatory profiles.  If your using XP on the laptop it 
will use the cached version of the profile when the user logs onto the 
domain and then will send the changes back to the server when he logs 
off again.

Paul Gienger wrote:

> Here's an issue I don't think I've seen come up since I've been 
> trolling that is going to be a headache for me:
>
> Say I have a user on a laptop, when he is constantly on the network, 
> everything is happy.  Say the user goes home, does some work, monkeys 
> around with his settings, and comes back.  As soon as said user logs 
> on he gets the copy of his profile from the last time he logged off.  
> Does anyone else see the problem here?
>
> I would like to know what creative solutions people have come up with 
> to get around the issue.  We currently use 2.2.8 but I'm going to push 
> 3.0.x out Real Soon Now (TM), so if some negotiation has somehow been 
> done in 3 to make this work better I'll shut up and go back to my hole.
>