[Samba] How to enforce client to download the profile form se rver

[Owens, Bob]

Help to see your smb.conf but here is mine it may help.

[global]
logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U

[Profiles]
path = /data/domain/Profiles/
browseable = no
writable = yes
valid users = @domusers
create mode = 0770
directory mode = 0770
force group = root


-----Original Message-----
From: Dimitry Surkov [mailto:dsurkov at wiwi.hu-berlin.de]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 10:07 AM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] How to enforce client to download the profile form server


Dear all,

i have the following problem. my smb.conf is working, but clients cannot
download their profiles from the server. I explain this on an example:
i have two windows machines: #1 and #2
i) i delete all local profiles in windows and a profile of user in unix
ii) login to machine #1, have the win dialog as though i just started the
machine for the first time (which is true), set my personal settings in
Outlook. logout
iii) login to machine #1 again and everything functions o.k., logout
iii) login to machine #2, i have the same win dialog as though i just
started the machine, although it is not the case, since i was on machine #1
already and no settings in Outlook. logout
iv) login to machine #1, the profile is gone, i do not have the win start
dialog again, but my outlook settings are gone.

What could it be? It seems that the windows machine uploads the profile to
the server, but in case of start on the same machine the local profile is
being used. However the new machine does not download the profile, but
overwrites it with a new locally created profile. SO, as i see it the
problem is: the client does not download the profile form the samba server.

Please help. Thanks in advance.

Dimitry Surkov
mailto: h0444250 at student.hu-berlin.de