implementing poilicies using netlogon

John H Terpstra jht at samba.org
Fri Feb 28 04:28:55 GMT 2003


On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 rvt at dds.nl wrote:

> >
> > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Poornima Marattil wrote:
> >
> > > hi ppl,
> > > Need some help.
> > > We usually put policy file in the netlogon dir.What if we have 15 to 20
> This is possible, doe you have any problems in that area?
>
> >
> > That is a BAD place to put them! Profiles should preferably go into a
> > separate Profiles share. Each profile should go under it's own directory
> > within that share.
> John, I think that he ment to put the *.pol files in the netlogon share, not
> the profiles.

Oops. You are correct!

>
> John I have a question for you. I put the policys under the users home
> directory logon path = \\%N\\%u\.profile

Should be OK. I just prefer to have them on a separate share since that
way the user's home directory can not get accidentally squashed by errant
profile deletion.

>
> Is this bad? And if so wy??
> I know there was a issue with previous version of samba but as fasr as I know
> this as been resolved.

See above.

- John T.

>
> Ries
>
>
> >
> > In my smb.conf I have:
> >
> >         logon path = \\%N\profiles\%u
> >
> > and:
> >
> > [profiles]
> >         comment = Roaming Profile Share
> >         path = /var/lib/samba/profiles
> >         admin users = @adm
> >         read only = No
> >         nt acl support = No
> >         profile acls = Yes
> >
> >
> > > policy files.Can samba2.4-stable6 handle this.
> >                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > What version is that? Not known here!
> >
> > Current stable is 2.2.7a, 2.2.8 is in pre-release.
> > Next major release will be 3.0.0 (not before April).
> >
> > - John T.
> > --
> > John H Terpstra
> > Email: jht at samba.org
> >
>
>

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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org


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