Antwort: Roaming Profiles

[Robert Estes]

I've read about the *.pds directory, but when I read about it, the document
said NT created it, but that they didn't know what it was for.  Does Win95
use it too?

> The Profiles are saved in the share [profiles]
> When you type \\%L\profiles\%U.pds the profiles were found in the 
> directory which you created in the share-location.
> 
> This is my smb.conf
> 
> logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U.pds
> 
> [profiles]
>         comment = profile-share
>         path = /var/samba/profile
>         read only = No
>         create mask = 0750
>         browseable = No
>         locking = No
> 
> Hope it works for you
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> "James W. Beauchamp" <jbeauchamp at gesinc.com>
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> 15.12.99 16:50
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>         An:     Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
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>         Thema:  Roaming Profiles
> 
> Hi everyone:
> I have been lurking here for some time trying to glean information related
> to roaming profiles.  I have RedHat 5.2 (2.0.36) and Samba 2.0.5a.  I am
> trying to implement roaming profiles with Win9x and Win NT 4.0 machines.
> >From reading the FAQ,and posts to this list, I understand it is bad form 
> to
> let Samba put the roaming profile in the users home directory
> (/home/username on my system) however, when I try to change it by un
> commenting the 'logon path = \\%L\home\profiles\%U' statement, it does not
> work.
> 
> When you use the logon path statement should it match exactly with the 
> path=
> statement in the [Profiles] section?  I think I'm missing something simple
> but I'm too far down in the weeds to see it!
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> James
> 
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