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[Andrew Perrin - Demography]

I believe point 2. is only true if users' home directories are set up on
the unix side to allow others to browse; if permissions are og-x on the
home directories, I don't think samba allows browsing into them either.

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On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Gil Freund wrote:

> Two points:
> 
> 1. The FAQ's warn about using the easy way out (the /home share) since
> windows maintains a link to that share, even when the user logs out.
> 2. The [profile] share (which I guess you are using) allows all users to
> browse all other users home directories. Not necessarily dangerous, but
> the is always a nosy one.
> 
> Gil
> 
> Donjuma Lee wrote:
> > 
> > you can do this from the smb.conf file, this is how i set it up:
> > ************************************************************************************
> > # Where to store roving profiles (only for Win95 and WinNT)
> > #        %L substitutes for this servers netbios name, %U is username
> > #        You must uncomment the [Profiles] share below
> >     logon path = \\%L\%U\ntlabprof
> > 
> > *************************************************************************************
> > This puts it in the users unix home directory.
> > 
> > hope this helps
> > 
> >                 --==DOn==--
> > 
> > On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Bryan O'Shea wrote:
> > 
> > > running linux 2.2.5 samba 2.0.3  w/ 6 or so nt workstations 4.0 sp4
> > >
> > > i have had all the computers join the domain and they can log into the
> > > domain and map drives etc...
> > > but everytime i log in it gives me this msg
> > >
> > > "Your roaming profile is not available, the operating system is
> > > attempting to log you in as your local profile"
> > > it does this every time i log in as the user and creates a new profile
> > > every time
> > >
> > > this is where i am not to keen at NT stuff... ;)
> > >
> > > i guess i don't have the privileges and so forth to change anything or
> > > tell it my path of my profile on the server when i am logged into the
> > > domain
> > >
> > > could someone point me in the right direction...
> > > i would like to do roaming profiles for each user in the domain but..
> > > don't know where to start...
> > > or how do i tell each user of the domain where his/her profile is stored
> > >
> > > on the server etc..
> > >
> > > any help would be appreciated
> > >
> > > ---Bryan
> > >
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