[Samba] Persistant Z drive in XP
John H Terpstra
jht at samba.org
Thu Feb 26 04:25:52 GMT 2004
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Moondance Foxmarnick wrote:
> Hello. New to SAMBA.(2.2.8 on RH9) Mixed environment of 98 & (trying)
> XP. My "net use s: /home" command works wonderfully for XP and 98. But
> XP throws in an "extra" "more home-than-home" directory - namely
> \username\.win_profile on the Z drive. I've tried disconnecting it with:
> net use Z: /delete, but XP claims to have a process running on it (even
> after 10 min). This is going to confuse the @$%@ out of my users.
>
> What is going on? And more importantly: how do I get it to stop?
>
> My SMB.conf file is a-la Using SAMBA from O'reilly press and therefore
> says:
>
> logon path = \\%L\profiles\%u\%m
> logon script = logon.bat
> logon home = \\%L\%u\.win_profile\%m
logon home =
i.e.: Leave the value blank.
- John T.
>
> with -
>
> [netlogon]
> path = /usr/local/samba/lib/netlogon
> create mask = 0600
> directory mask = 0700
> browseable = No
>
> [profiles]
> path = /ovs/home/samba-ntprof
> browsable = no
> writable = yes
> create mask = 0600
> directory mask = 0700
>
> [homes]
> read only = No
> browseable = No
>
> Hopefully, somebody will reply, if only to commiserate. <smile>
> -Moondance
>
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org
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