[Samba] roaming profiles on win98

Bob Crandell bob at assuredcomp.com
Tue Nov 12 19:58:01 GMT 2002


Hi,

Turn off local passwords, that is, del user.pwl and login again as that user and
don't give them a local password.

Roaming profiles, while it sounds like a good idea, seems to have more problems then
it's worth.  At least that's the impression I get lurking here.

Gurnish Anand (gurnish at murphybank.com) wrote*:
>
>We have 20-30 computers here with win98 and a Linux/Samba Server. We
>have just implemented Samba PDC. The only problem I see is if we change
>passwords on a computer..that changes on that workstation and on Samba
>and Unix. Now, if the user goes to another computer they have their old
>password on the other computer and new one on Samba.
>  So, would roaming profiles help me...what i want to do is have one
>loggon and not worry about passwords on Windows locally...and just
>change and use Samba passwords...
>
>Please advice!!
>
>Gurnish
>
>
>
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