profiles

[Alfredo Ramos]

The way the lab is set up, every user logs in with a default local profile
that has pointers to all the applications available and no user is allowed
to modify that profile except for the administrator. The user can load
programs of his own in the local machine, but those programs are gone 
every night when the machine is wiped clean. If samba was allowed to
create profiles and users were allowed to modify them, they would keep
growing, and that would lenghten the time it takes for the client to
retrive them. So it is a matter of speed, for the client at login; and
convenience, for the administrator to control what applications are
available to the user.

We use NT to give the user access to PC applications in a controlled
environment, and also to provide access to their home directories in the
unix box. Everything else (authentication, and services) is handled in
unix by samba.

Thanks; I'll use the suggestion.

Al.  

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On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Gerald Carter wrote:

> Alfredo Ramos wrote:
> > 
> > Question;
> > 
> > I have samba-2.0.4b running on a Solaris 2.6 box as a 
> > PDC. And I want to keep it from creating profiles (any 
> > kind of profiles, roamming or otherwise). 
> 
> All users get a profile. How would you do what you desire 
> in an NT environment and you'll probably be able to 
> emmulate the setup in a samba domain.
> 
> > Is there a switch that needs to be set, during compile 
> > or on smb.conf, to tell samba not to create profiles? 
> 
> It's an NT issues.  Check out some of the white papers 
> on MS's ntserver site about profiles and policies.  It 
> would be possible to share them among users if you make 
> them mandatory.
> 
> 
> > subject, is there a setting in Win/NT to keep it from 
> > looking for a roamming profile when logging into a 
> > domain and just use a default local profile?
> 
> Try
> 
> 	logon path = "%systemroot%\profiles\%U"
> 
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> jerry
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