[Samba] samba3 win2k roaming profiles.

[John H Terpstra]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Nathan Brown wrote:

> Sorry, Ill be a little more specific.
>
> 1. I create user "Joe"
> 2. I give "joe" a password
> 3. "joe" logs on and the FOLDER /home/profile/joe (aka.
> \\www\profile\joe) is created.
> 4. IF a profile exists in \\www\profile\joe and NOT locally, it will
> read it from the server.
> 5. IF a profile exists LOCALLY, it will NOT read from the server.
> 6. In BOTH situations, the profile files will NOT be saved to the
> server.

If you have a local profile, that will be used. That is normal behavior.

If you client uses the roaming profile it should write it back only if the
profile contents has changed during the current session. It will only do
that it the profile that is on the workstation is registered as a roaming
profile.

- John T.

>
> May I also, I'm using Windows 2000 SP4 (But its an upgrade from WINNT).
>
> On Jan 17, 2004, at 9:27 PM, John H Terpstra wrote:
>
> > Nathan,
> >
> > Workstation default user profiles go in:
> > 	C:\Application and User Defaults\'username'
> >
> > Roaming profiles go in:
> >
> > logon path/'username'
> >
> > ie: If "logon path = \\server\profiles"
> >
> > Fred's profile will go in \\server\profiles\fred
> >
> > If the UNIX path for the [profiles] share is: /home/profiles
> > Fred's profile under UNIX will be in /home/profiles/fred
> >
> > Note: You must create the directory 'fred' under the profile share
> > because
> > Samba does not automatically do that for you. If the directory does not
> > exist, the profile will not be saved.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John T.
> >
> > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Nathan Brown wrote:
> >
> >> Perhaps I have a faulty Windows setup because I used the group policy
> >> editor gpedit.msc and set it to delete all profiles after you logout
> >> and to wait for roaming profiles. Perhaps I should re-install? Also,
> >> where are the profiles supposed to go? The same place it downloaded it
> >> from; the "logon path"?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jan 17, 2004, at 8:10 PM, John H Terpstra wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Nathan Brown wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I'm running Windows 2000 Professional and Samba 3.0.1 and I can't
> >>>> seem
> >>>> to get roaming profiles to work right. When there are no profiles
> >>>> stored locally on the win2k machine, and a user logs in for the
> >>>> first
> >>>> time, it successfully reads the profile from the server in the
> >>>> \\netlogon\Default User  share. Next, if you manually copy the
> >>>> profile
> >>>> to server and login to the workstation, it will read the profile.
> >>>>
> >>>> The problem comes in when any changes are made to the profile or if
> >>>> a
> >>>> profile exists (for that user) on the workstation, it won't read the
> >>>> profile from the server nor will it update the profile on the server
> >>>> when they log off. I can't tell if this is a Windows problem or a
> >>>> Samba
> >>>> problem, but everything looks like it set correctly in Samba and on
> >>>> Windows and I just don't know what to do now!
> >>>
> >>> What you see is the correct Windows behavior. Windows will read the
> >>> Default Network Profile only the to create the users' default
> >>> profile.
> >>> That default will be stored on the local windows workstation in the
> >>> default location. If roaming profiles are enabled, the users' default
> >>> profile will be written to the profile share in a directory named as
> >>> the
> >>> user.
> >>>
> >>> You can configure the workstation to delete a roaming profile on
> >>> logout.
> >>> Whent that is done, if the user has a 'per user' default profile it
> >>> will
> >>> be used in preference to the Network Default User profile.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> John T.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Samba Config:
> >>>>
> >>>> [global]
> >>>>          workgroup = WORKSTATION
> >>>>          time server = Yes
> >>>>          log level = 11
> >>>>          logon script = %u.bat
> >>>>          logon drive = h:
> >>>>          domain logons = Yes
> >>>>          os level = 33
> >>>>          preferred master = Yes
> >>>>          domain master = Yes
> >>>>          profile acls = yes
> >>>>          logon home = \\www\%u
> >>>>          logon path = \\www\profile\%u
> >>>>          profile acls = yes
> >>>>
> >>>> [profile]
> >>>>          create mask = 0777
> >>>>          directory mask = 0777
> >>>>          writable = yes
> >>>>          browseable = yes
> >>>>          path = /home/profiles
> >>>>
> >>>> [netlogon]
> >>>>          path = /usr/local/netlogon
> >>>>          read only = No
> >>>>          locking = No
> >>>>          root preexec = /usr/local/netlogon/logonscript.pl %U %M %m
> >>>>          root postexec = /usr/local/netlogon/logoutscript.pl %U %M
> >>>> %m
> >>>>
> >>>> [homes]
> >>>>          comment = Home Directories
> >>>>          read only = No
> >>>>          create mask = 0700
> >>>>          browseable = No
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> John H Terpstra
> >>> Email: jht at samba.org
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > John H Terpstra
> > Email: jht at samba.org
>

-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org