[Samba] Win2K Profiles and a Samba PDC.

[Elijah Savage III]

This is the same issue we were having we went ahead and decided to let
them create the profiles on the server, if you find a fix please let me
know. Also if you make that decision make sure you have enough disk
space because that crap eats disk space look at the post below for what
it creates on the server.

This what you see below is from one of the WinXP clients in my domain
that created it's profile on the server.

harrier# ll
total 2922
drwx------  7 esavage  wheel      512 Jun 24 23:46 Application Data
drwx------  2 esavage  wheel     2048 Jun 26 07:52 Cookies
drwx------  2 esavage  wheel      512 Jun 26 06:51 Desktop
drwx------  3 esavage  wheel     1024 Jun 24 23:46 Favorites
drwx------  8 esavage  wheel      512 Jun 25 18:46 My Documents
-rw-------  1 esavage  wheel  2945024 Jun 26 07:49 NTUSER.DAT
drwx------  4 esavage  wheel      512 Jun 25 18:46 NetHood
drwx------  2 esavage  wheel      512 Jun 24 22:46 PrintHood
drwx------  2 esavage  wheel      512 Jun 26 06:51 Recent
drwx------  2 esavage  wheel      512 Jun 24 22:46 SendTo
drwx------  3 esavage  wheel      512 Jun 24 22:46 Start Menu
drwx------  2 esavage  wheel      512 Jun 24 22:46 Templates
-rw-------  1 esavage  wheel     1024 Jun 24 22:51 ntuser.dat.LOG
-rw-------  1 esavage  wheel      370 Jun 26 07:52 ntuser.ini

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]
On Behalf Of Andrew Bartlett
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 5:16 PM
To: Don Werve
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Win2K Profiles and a Samba PDC.

Don Werve wrote:
> 
> We're a Solaris/Linux shop, trying to migrate the last vestiges of our
> NT domain over to Samba.  We've got a few users using Windows 20000
> workstations, and for some odd reason can't get them to join the
domain
> with local profiles.  The Winboxen always try to create roaming
profiles
> on the PDC (which we don't want), and there's no way to force a local
> profile, other than letting the Windows box create a profile directory
> when the user logs in, then setting their profile to 'local'.
> 
> So, in short, we want to force the Win2K clients to use local profiles
only.

I think this is becouse Samba always assigns a value to the 'profile
path' - and windows uses 'NULL' to mean 'local profile'.  Try setting
'logon path = ' in your smb.conf - but this is somthing that I'll need
to chase up with some VMware sessions and a sniffer.

Andrew Bartlett

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Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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