[Samba] Re: Shared profiles under XP?

[Buchan Milne]

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> Message: 12
> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:36:18 +1100
> From: xfesty <xfesty at computeraddictions.com.au>
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Re: Shared profiles under XP?
>
> Hi...
>
> Isn't this possible?
>
> I've gotten no replies...
>
> R
>
> On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 10:54 PM, xfesty wrote:
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>
>> Hiya.
>>
>> Is it possible to share profiles between different users with Samba
>> 3.0CVS acting as a PDC, and XP Workstations?

It doesn't matter what is on the server side. The issue is that the
registry file contains ACLs, and unless you set the ACLs to allow
everyone to use the profile it won't work (regradless of the server).
However, some features won't work right if you do this, such as the list
of last-opened files in many applications won't be updated, since this
information is store in the registry.

>>
>> All users are using the same profile share; the concept is that
>> there's an "Admin" user which can read/write to this, so I can setup
>> things such as Internet Explorer settings / Desktop/Start Menu items /
>> color scheme, etc..., and all other users only have read only access
>> to this share, yet use the same profile.
>>

AFAIK, windows requires write access to the profile, otherwise it won't
load it (or it may, but will warn you that your changes will be lost
everytime you log in). You can enforce a lot of these settings by
policies, however the policy implementation changed with windows 2000 to
use AD, and policy files don't quite seem to work as they should with
windows 2000. And policies didn't seem to be very robust with NT4
anyway. We don't use policies that much any more, since they broke the
one (expensive) application everyone here uses.

For desktop/start menu items, you can use the "All Users" profile on the
client machine, I don't think the "All Users" profile can reside
server-side.

>> At the moment each user's trying to create its own profile, which
>> isn't what I want (and isn't possible, considering the fact its a read
>> only share).
>>
>> If it makes any difference, I'm using jelmer's mysql module, and all
>> users are in the same unix group.

Don't think it would make a difference.

Buchan

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