profiles in home

[Andy Polyakov]

> > > i have only one question. I red (in docs) that there is a problem with
> > > profiles located in home dirs, cause some strange problems appear after
> > > few logins and logouts. Is this problem already solved or it's still
> > > recommended to have profiles in other location than user's homes?
> > As far as I have understood the problem is not on the serverside, but on the
> > client side (NT or 95).
> >
> > So this Problem cannot be solved by samba...
> 
> well it sort of can.
> just make a separate profile share on your samba server and wa-la the
> problem is gone.
> 
or

        logon path = \\HOMEDIR\profiles\%U

[profiles]
        writable = yes
        wide links = yes
        path = /tmp/profiles
        comment = Profile MUX
        preexec = [ -h %P/%U ] || /bin/ln -s %H/.nt %P/%U
        postexec = /bin/rm %P/%U

if you don't want to have /tmp/profiles world writable prepend
[pre|post]exec with root.

andy.