Samba and logoff event
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Sat Jun 15 00:23:51 MDT 2013
On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 00:42 +0200, Alex Winzer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> first of all thank your for your great work on Samba. I'm using it for
> years and I'm kind of satisfied. Second I don't know if this is the
> right list to ask. So I#d be thankful for any advice were to put it right.
>
> I'm using samba as a primary domian controller mostly for Windows XP
> clients with roaming profiles. I have two offices and so I'm using samba
> as a file server only from that second office. This I wanted to change.
>
> I already did some research on the internet, how to syncronize these
> profiles. There seems not to be an event fired by samba if a user does a
> logoff from PDC.
Correct, there is not a specific message sent to us on 'log off'.
> That's why some people offer a solution by using a cron
> job to keep the profiles the same. Others use a construction of
> smbstatus and grep or netstat and grep to simulate this.
>
> So here my questions:
> 1. Does samba have such kind of event?
> 2. If it has, how can I handle it / find some information about?
> 3. If it doesn't, would it be possible to insert such kind of event into
> future versions of samba?
The client doesn't tell us about a desktop logoff, so that's why this
isn't easy to do.
Andrew Bartlett
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