[Samba] Re: Shared profiles under XP?

[xfesty]

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Hmm..

Surely there's someway to make a non-changable profiles for all users?  
I mean, Windows 2000 Server can do this, and so could NT4...

R

On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 07:42 PM, David de Groot wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, Nov 20, 2002, at 22:24 Australia/Adelaide, xfesty wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to share profiles between different users with Samba 
>> 3.0CVS acting as a PDC, and XP Workstations?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I think what you'll find is you're hitting a limit of Windows not 
> Samba.
> The user profile usually contains the user registry entries (in a .dat 
> file), Temporary Internet Files, various application specific settings 
> and temp access areas. Therefore the clients need write access to this 
> area. Furthermore, unless they're all logging in with the same 
> username, you can't share a single profile over disparate users. 
> Again, this is a limitation of Windows not Samba.
>
> Dave
>
>

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