[Samba] Samba 4 roaming profiles

[steve]

On 22/12/11 14:04, steve wrote:
> On 21/12/11 21:15, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 18:53 +0100, steve wrote:
>>> Hi everyone
>>> This is our first proper test of Samba 4 and we've been up with an
>>> opensuse server, an ubuntu client, an opensuse client and a win 7
>>> client. 24 hours without a problem:)
>>> 1. We have got as far as deciding where roaming profiles should go. In
>>> 3.6 we had them inside the users home folder. Someone said that was not
>>> good. Going with the Samba 4 wiki, we put them in
>>> /usr/local/samba/var/profiles and used the microsoft remote directory
>>> tool to set everyone's profile to that folder. It worked well and the
>>> permissions are set correctly too.
>>> Does it really matter where they are stored?
>> So long as it is somewhere that (a) has reasonable performance (b) gets
>> backed up and (c) user's are tempted to mess with them directly [which
>> is why home directory overlap is bad].
>>
>>> 2, We used likewise to join the Linux boxes to the domain. The Linux
>>> Desktop however seems to be stored locally by likewise. It is not
>>> available as a windows roaming profile. e.g. creating a file on the
>>> ubuntu desktop makes the file unavailable on either the opensuse or win
>>> 7 client.
>> Yes. I have no experience with Likewise, but this is the experience I
>> would expect. It would only really work if it mapped some folders in
>> the roaming profile to the equivalent XDG folders - I have no idea how
>> that would work.
>>
>>> I think that this has something to do with group policy. Before I
>>> investigate further could anyone confirm whether it is possible to have
>>> something like roaming profiles for Linux?
>> Usually by automounting the home directory. All that stuff is really
>> part of the home directoy in LINUX [GNOME]. You can do some management
>> of the desktop via tools like Sabayon.
>>
> Thanks Adam
>
> If I understand this correctly, I authenticate the Linux box via Samba
> 4. I have /home mounted on the Linux client via NFS. Under openldap this
> works fine. My problem is with this:
>
> Currently, authenticating against openLDAP, I have the users /home
> folder nfs mounted and so after authentication, all the users settings
> are read as if the user has logged on locally.
>
> If I authenticate Linux via Samba 4 AD, The Linux box has to be joined
> to the domain likewise is creating the users /home folder locally on the
> client and so any user settings are not seen when the user logs in on
> another Linux box. Is likewise the only way of joining the Linux box to
> the domain?
>
> How do I get the same effect with Samba 4 authentication so that the
> users home folder is read rather than likewise creating a local home
> folder where settings will not be transferred to the users actual home
> folder?
>
> Really need to take likewise out of the equation here I think.
>
> Simply, I authenticate using AD. How do I have the user read from his
> own home folder after authentication?
>
> Thanks for your patience.
> Steve.

This is what I want:

http://www.likewise.com/resources/documentation_library/manuals/open/likewise-open-guide.html#SetHomeDirAndShell

Is there any way I can implement this with Samba 4?

Thanks
Steve