[Samba] samba roaming profile

[Lukasz Szybalski]

On 7/19/07, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <felipe at paranacidade.org.br> wrote:
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> Lukasz Szybalski wrote, On 18-07-2007 13:13:
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>         Profiles are sort of ninja magic, sometimes it works,
> sometimes it doesn't and as the documentation says, it can be
> the heaven for some people and the hell for others. BTW, did
> you check the "Desktop Profile Management" in Samba HOWTO?
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> http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ProfileMgmt.html
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>
> > [profiles]
> > comment = Network PRofiles Share
> > path = /home/samba/profiles
> > #read only = No
> > #store dos attributes = Yes
> > #create mask = 0600
> > #directory  mask = 0700
> > #browseable = no
> > #guest ok = no
> > #printable = no
> > writable = yes
>
>         Here is an example of profiles that we used for
> quite some time on our company:
>
> [Profiles]
>     path = /srv/samba/profiles
>     browseable = yes
>     guest ok = yes
>     writeable = yes
>     read only = no
>     profile acls = yes
>     csc policy = disable
>     create mode = 0600
>     directory mode = 0700

I am used your settings.

>
>
> > [profiles]
> > admin users = newuser2
> >
> > This means that newuser2 can act root.
> > In my profile I get another folder created automatically only for newuser2
> > 1. Why is the folder created only for newuser2 and not newuser?
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root       newuser2 4096 2007-07-18 09:20 newuser2
>
>         Sounds related to the permissions.
Or not since admin users = newuser2, which lets the account work as
root. Is that normal behavior?


>
>
> > 2. Why is the /home/samba/profiles/newuser2 empty? It is not filled
> > with roaming profile after I logging  out of windows XP?
>
>         That can be a WinXP problem. If for some reason, your
> user and/or workstation has any setup to act as a local profile,
> then it wouldn't upload anything to the server.
>
>         Local policies can be modified to force only local
> profiles, you can also change some settings on how your roaming
> profile works.
>
>
> > I log in to newuser:
> > cannot load a  roaming profile, loading your local profile
> > cannot locate local profile
> >
> > I log in to newuser2:
> > cannot locate roaming profile on server
> >
> > 3. How do I make the roaming profile working. It is the case that
> > setting up the users and adding logon path, logon home, profiles to
> > smb.conf is not enough?
> > What else needs to be done?
>
>         'logon path' and 'logon home' are used by different
> clients, sometimes (and specially for XP) you need the
> 'csc policy' option.
>

What bothers me the most is the fact that out of 5 newusers I have created, on
2 of them the roaming profiles has created properly but it won't for
the rest. With no special order.

Second. Is there a reason I can't delete Icons on the desktop on
windows xp. It tells me access denied.

Are there any manual tests i can do to check on the profile status?

Is there a domain users group that i maybe should create in samba or anywhere?
Lucas