[Samba] Disabling Roaming Profile Support

[Marcio Oli]

Hi Jeff,

      my configs. are like yours. The default value of parameter "logon
drive" is "logon drive =", so testparm is correct, because the output is
showed only if different of default values.

Thanks,
Marcio Oliveira.

2012/10/31 Jeff Dickens <jeff at seamanpaper.com>

> I have "logon drive =" in smb.conf but testparm does not report that.
>
> Does it on your system, Marcio?
>
> ex:
>
> root at grackle:~# grep logon /etc/samba/smb.conf
>    domain logons = yes
>    logon drive =
>    logon home =
>    logon path =
> [netlogon]
>    path = /home/samba/netlogon
> root at grackle:~#
> root at grackle:~# testparm | grep logon
> Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
> ...snip...
> Loaded services file OK.
> Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_PDC
> Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
>
>         logon path =
>         logon home =
>         domain logons = Yes
> [netlogon]
>         path = /home/samba/netlogon
> root at grackle:~#
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Jeff Dickens <jeff at seamanpaper.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > *     Jeff Dickens*
> >      IT Manager      978-632-1513
> >
> >
> >
>
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Marcio Oliveira.
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