nt profiles and win 9x profiles on 2.1prealpha

[Gerald Carter]

tschweikle at FIDUCIA.de wrote:
> 
> 1. they work not under all circumstances. There are configurations
>    where SAMBA tells the client there is no profile but it's there
>    and accessible. Seems as if this problem is related to time-out
>    settings on the client side (it occurs with NT-Server and SAMBA).

The initial question wa whether or not Samba could support 
NT roaming profiles.  The answer is still yes.  If there is 
a client issue as you claim, that is beyond any server's
responsibility to fix.  The client should be fixed.  I know 
you probably agree.  I am just stating the obvious here.

> 2. only part of it is implemented the way NT-Server handles them.
>    You may not have roaming profiles on a user by user base. There's

include = %U.conf

where %U.conf contains
	logon path = <profile path>

should work.  The standard 

	logon path = \\profileserv\profile\%U

is a unique path for each user, but the include line 
would give you the maximum flexibility.

>    only one global setting for all users (you may give every user
>    his own profile path - but it's impossible to give one user
>    a roaming profile while others have local ones).

If I remember correctly

	logon path = '%systemroot%\profiles\%U'

(or maybe it was 'c:\winnt\profiles\%U')

does work.  I have not tried but but one person did 
and claimed it worked.

> But roaming profiles work 99,9% of time. Best if your 
> client and Server are the same subnet.

None of my NT boxes are on the same subnet as my PDC and I 
rarely have problems.  Of course I am using older CVS code 
as well so maybe this was broken lately.





Cheers,
jerry
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                            Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
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