[Samba] Switch profile from local to roaming?
Thomas M. Skeren III
tms3 at fskklaw.com
Wed Sep 29 19:38:16 GMT 2004
Been working on this for a while Misty. Stay tuned.
TMS III
Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
>I've got a WinXP machine that was configured for local profiles. I have now
>joined that machine to the domain, but when I try to log in as a user, it
>tries to use a roaming profile. Fine, that's what I want anyway. But it
>doesn't do the smart thing and copy the user's local profile to roaming -- it
>gives an error instead. OK, no problem, I will change the type. I log in as
>local admin and go to her profile. It only gives me Local as an option.
>Maybe it's because I'm not logged into the domain. OK, I log into the domain
>as Administrator (alias root -- uid of 0). It doesn't even let me SEE her
>profile then. Because it is local, I assume. So ok, I add
>MYDOMAIN\Administrator as a local administrator on her machine. It lets me
>see her profile now but I still can't change it to roaming. And every time I
>try to copy it into either Administrator's directory on the server, or hers,
>it gives me Permission Denied.
>
>So what is the real way to get this accomplished?
>
>Thanks,
>Misty
>
>
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