Turning OFF Network Profiles Safely

[David Bannon]

At 11:58 AM 05/02/1999 +1100, Todd Stiers wrote:
>Roaming profiles are wrecking havoc on my now NT-SERVERLESS
>NT domain :)
>
>I tried to turn them off by commenting out the "logon path"
>line in the smb.conf and restarting smbd.
>
>
It seems that if you do NTDomain you are stuck with domain profiles. You
can tell the workstations not to cache locally, very important if each
computer has a large number of users (ie in a lab). You should also tell
Internet Explorer not to save it (huge) cache. 

In one lab under my care I have a post exec that removes the users profile
off the server after they log off ! Anyone leave things on the desktop and
its lost ! This way the profile is still sent to the server, but at least
it does not grow endlessly.

If the samba team ever decides to make samba do _more_ (rather than just
better) than NT, control of user profiles would be a good place to start.

David

>IS it safe to comment out the [Profiles] and [netlogon]
>entries to disable roaming profiles? If not, then what is the
>preferred method?
>

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