2 issues: Roaming Profiles & File create permissions

Richard Sharpe sharpe at ns.aus.com
Fri Dec 8 12:58:27 GMT 2000


At 11:50 AM 12/8/00 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
>WinNT and Win98 use different profile settings. For win9x, I think you
>need to use a
>logon home = \\%L\home\%U\.profiles

Yes, something like that is needed ...

>logon path is for WinNT as far as I know.

Yes, that is correct.

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

Indeed :-)

>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
>> 
>> .
>
>
>

Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
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