Storing roaming profiles in home directories.

[Akop Pogosian]

On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, David Bannon wrote:

> At 12:19 AM 3/12/2000 -0800, Akop Pogosian wrote:
> >Is there anything wrong with storing the roaming profiles in home
> >directories which are also mapped to a drive letter when the users log
> >on? That's what I do, seems to work fine. However, someone mentioned
> >in the past that this is not a good thing to do.  I can't remember his
> >reasons anymore. Does anyone know what are the disadvantages of doing
> >this?
> >
> 
> Yes, I do the same thing on one domain I administer. The only problem is
> that users see the profile there and sometimes have a little play with it.
> I had one new user who who thought she had to save her files there, inside
> 'My Documents'. Of course everything changed when she logged out and her
> local profile was copied onto the server....
> 
> David

FYI,  just found the following in the Samba PDC faq:

|4.1.1.  Why is it bad to set "logon path = \\%N\%U\profile" in smb.conf?
|
|Sometimes Windows clients will maintain a connection to the [homes] (
|or [%U] ) share even after the user has logged out.  Consider the
|following scenario. 
|
|user1 logs into the Windows NT machine.  Therefore the [homes] share
|is set to \\server\user1.  
|user1 works for a while and then logs out. 
|user2 logs into the same Windows NT  machine. 
|
|However, since the NT box has maintained a connection to [homes] which
|was perviously set to \\server\user1, when the operating system
|attempts to get the profile and if it can read users1's profile, will
|get it otherwise it will return an error.   You get the picture.
|
|A better solution is to use a separate [profiles] share and set the
|"logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U"
|