2 issues: Roaming Profiles & File create permissions

[Buchan Milne]

WinNT and Win98 use different profile settings. For win9x, I think you
need to use a
logon home = \\%L\home\%U\.profiles
logon path is for WinNT as far as I know.

(take a look at the DOMAIN.TXT file in the docs).

Gerry George wrote:
> 
> I am running samba 2.0.6 on Linux (Suse 6.4) as a PDC, serving shares to
> WinNT & Win98 clients.  Domain logons are working as expected.
> 
[snip]
> 
> Another issue - Roaming Profiles
> 
> It seems to work - somewhat.
> I have logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U
> and
> [Profile]
> path = /home/samba/Profile
> create mode = 0600
> directory mode = 0700
> writeable = yes
> browseable = no
> 
> However, I find that I must manually create the directory  in
> /home/samba/Profile/  for the user (%U) before profiles will be copied to
> the server.  Otherwise, it does not work.

This is due to a bug in NT, not necessary if you only run 9x. See the
DOMAIN.TXT file.

> This makes it inconvenient when creating new users, as the entire process
> cannot be automated.  I would like to have the profiles stored in the
> users' home directory as /%U/.Profiles (so that it will remain hidden to
> normal browsing).  I attempted this but it wouldn't work.  What exactly is
> the function of the "logon path" directive and, if it is relative to
> "netlogon", then how can I  specify a subdirectory within the users' home
> directory?
> 
> Gerry E. George  <ggeorge at digisolv.com>
> Information Technology Specialist,
> DigiSolv, Inc.
> (758) 450-3444 / 3109 (fax)
> http://www.digisolv.com
> 
> .