Fwd: [Samba] roaming profiles stored on BDCs? how?

Scott Lovenberg scott.lovenberg at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 00:31:23 GMT 2008


John Drescher wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Adam Williams <awilliam at mdah.state.ms.us> wrote:
>  > I have a PDC named GOMER w/ IP of 10.8.3.37 and a BDC named BLDG2 w/ ip
>  >  of 10.8.7.2.  when someone on the 10.8.7.x network using the WINS server
>  >  of 10.8.7.2 logs in and out, their roaming profile is stored on the
>  >  PDC.  is there any way to have the roaming profile stored on the BDC?,
>  >  because I will have other 10.8.x.x networks and some of these remote
>  >  sites will be using DSL and I don't want the profiles transfering over
>  >  DSL.  any suggestions?
>  >
>
>  You can put the roaming profile on any cifs/sanba server in your
>  network. I have mine on a standalone server.
>
>  see
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>  logon path
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>  John
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FWIW, this sounds like a good application for DFS.  It will give you a 
layer of abstraction that's seamless, in theory.  Although, I've never 
tried it in practice.


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