Profiles - Double checking

[Andrew Perrin - Demography]

Nope, the logon path is \\population\ntprofile\.ntprofile

Heres the big-picture setup:
- 2 Samba servers, both running NTDom under Solaris 2.6.
- 1 (BOSERUP) is the PDC and handles logins, validation, etc.
- 1 (POPULATION) is not a PDC; it serves home directories, profiles,
     etc., and is the WINS server. - Users' home directories are shared by
Samba under [homes]; each user has a subdirectory of the home directory,
~/ntprofile/.ntprofile (the two-level system was based on somebody's
recommendation from the list a while ago).  The [netlogon] share points at
this location by using %U/ntprofile as its path.

Upon login, BOSERUP validates the user and runs the logon script; it then
passes off to POPULATION to load the profile and home shares.  POPULATION
ends up being the machine users know about.

Hope this helps -- or that someone tells me I'm doing something horribly
wrong.  It seems to me like I've avoided the [homes]/profiles problem by
setting up two different shares, right?
 
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Andrew J. Perrin - aperrin at demog.berkeley.edu - NT/Unix Admin/Support
Department of Demography    -    University of California at Berkeley
2232 Piedmont Avenue #2120  -    Berkeley, California, 94720-2120 USA
http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin --------------------------SEIU1199

On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Dana Canfield wrote:

> Are you then using something like "logon path = \\%N\ntprofile" in the
> general section?  Sorry if that is an obvious question, but we've had so
> much trouble with NISGina this semester that when I make a switch I want
> to make sure I'm doing it right.
> 
> BTW, I'm trying to compile a lot of the files in the docs directory and
> expand all of that into a "User's Manual" of sorts for Samba 2.0.  If
> people have some example smb.conf's that are working for them, I'd love
> to be able to include them as examples of different ways of doing
> things.  I'll send the document to the list for review, and then to the
> samba crew for possible inclusion in a few weeks.   
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andrew Perrin - Demography wrote:
> > 
> > The way we have it set up is:
> > [ntprofile]
> >   guest ok = no
> >   read only = no
> >   browseable = yes
> >   wide links = yes
> >   printable = no
> >   path = %H/ntprofile
> >   locking = no
> >   Comment = Profile Directory (%U)
> > 
> > That seems to work quite nicely for us -- are we asking for trouble?
> > 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Andrew J. Perrin - aperrin at demog.berkeley.edu - NT/Unix Admin/Support
> > Department of Demography    -    University of California at Berkeley
> > 2232 Piedmont Avenue #2120  -    Berkeley, California, 94720-2120 USA
> > http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin --------------------------SEIU1199
> > 
> > On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Dana Canfield wrote:
> > 
> > > I think I finally understand the problem with roaming profiles related
> > > to %U.  Despite the potential for trouble, I've found that it causes
> > > even more trouble for me if I don't keep the profiles in the user's home
> > > directory.  So now, in the smb.conf, I have
> > >
> > > logon drive = H:
> > > include = %H/.user.conf
> > >
> > > Then, in the user's home directory, in a file named .user.conf stored in
> > > the user's home directory, I have the line:
> > >
> > > logon path = /path/to/users/home/directory/.profile
> > >
> > > Is there anything inhrently wrong with this setup?  If so, is there any
> > > way to do something similar?  I don't mind having to manually create the
> > > /user.conf files, scripts can take care of that.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
>