Roaming profiles with W98 clients

[Steve Litt]

I wouldn't call them broken -- they got changed from 2.0.5a. If you'd like
to restore the 2.0.5a behavior (I like that behavior better), change these
two source/smbd/ipc.c calls from:

pstrcpy(p2, lp_logon_home());

to

pstrcpy(p2, lp_logon_path());

This will revert to the 2.0.5a behavior that gets profile location right
but has been reported to get home directory wrong. Also, it's been reported
that the following workaround places both profiles and the home directory
where they belong (without the source code reversion)

logon home = \\%L\%U\profile

Steve Litt



At 07:27 AM 02/18/2000 +1100, eirvine wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Roaming profiles are *broken* in 2.06. They work just fine on 2.05a.
>
>Eddie.
>
>JF HUNEZ wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> I run Samba 2.06 as PDC and the clients are Win98 machines
>> only.
>> Roaming profiles don't work, there is no user.dat in the profiles
>> share, only the START folder.
>> I have read the doc in /usr/doc and the NTDOM faq too ; my
>> smb.conf  meets the recommendations.
>> Roaming profiles need a NT server on the network ??
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>>   JF HUNEZ
>> Reunion Island
>