[Samba] Disabling Roaming Profile Support

Marcio Oli marcio.oli.df at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 15:18:41 MDT 2012


In my case, I'm using:

logon path =
logon home =
logon drive =

It is working ok, in other words, with local profiles only.
Test the configurations with testparm command to see the output of the
smb.conf file.


Regards,
Marcio Oliveira.


2012/10/30 Jeff Dickens <jeff at seamanpaper.com>

> From
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ProfileMgmt.html
> :
>
> Disabling Roaming Profile Support
>
> The question often asked is, “How may I enforce use of local profiles?” or
> “How
> do I disable roaming profiles?”
>
> There are three ways of doing this:
> In smb.conf
>
> Affect the following settings and ALL clients will be forced to use a local
> profile: logon home =
> <
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/smb.conf.5.html#LOGONHOME
> >and
> logon
> path =
> <
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/smb.conf.5.html#LOGONPATH
> >
>
> The arguments to these parameters must be left blank. It is necessary to
> include the = sign to specifically assign the empty value.
>
>
> This apparently no longer works, or at least it doesn't work properly with
> an LDAP server.
>
> Can anyone comment on why? I'm running Samba 3.6.3-2 on Ubuntu 12.04.
>
>
>
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