forced profiles (was: profile problems in 2.2.0)

Alex Collins alex at geoquark.com
Thu May 10 19:02:24 GMT 2001


Keith,

as far as i know, what you want to do is to rename the profile that is
stored on the Samba PDC \\%N\profiles\<naming method> so that instead of
NTProfile.dat (i think that is the correct extension) you get NTProfile.man
(man for MANdatory).

if this is then placed in the profile share (configure this in smb.conf -
see "logon path" for more info) the NT clients (w2k is nt based) will then
use this.

hope this helps

alex collins

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
Behalf Of Keith Warno
Sent: 09 May 2001 22:21
To: samba list
Subject: forced profiles (was: profile problems in 2.2.0)


Greetings.

I've read through Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf and the Windows Word doc
(Profiles_and_Policies.doc) it referenced on setting up roaming
profiles.  Profiles work but there are issues (see my earlier post:
"profile problems in 2.2.0") that the Samba team are aware of, issues
that render roaming profiles pretty useless.

So I grabbed the CVS source and it behaves as the 2.2.0 release (again,
see the earlier post).  What I would like to do is implement forced
profiles, ie, force win2k clients to use the profiles that are on the
samba PDC as opposed to allowing the win2k clients to create and use
local profiles.  I know this can be done in NT4 (the word doc speaks
about it) but we're using samba here, not NT4.  ;-)  Can samba do this
sort of thing and if so, how?

Thanks,
kw
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