[Samba] How to accomplish local profiles

Darren Spruell darren_spruell at sento.com
Mon Apr 14 17:23:56 GMT 2003


Christoph Scholz wrote:
> Hi Darren!
> 
> Darren Spruell wrote:
> 
>> Greetz,
>>
>> We want to preserve local profiles on our domain. I have configured 
>> Samba 2.2.8a as a PDC for Windows 2000 clients but see by default that 
>> the profile is set up as roaming. The profile type is also shown as 
>> roaming in the Profiles tab of the Win2k System Properties.
>>
>> How can we keep the user profile directory a local path for our domain 
>> users?
>>
> 
> Just set
> 
> logon path =
> 
> 
> in the global section of smb.conf. New users will then get a local 
> profile when they are created.
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Christoph
> 

I take it then that this is a required option - leaving it commented 
will force default to a roaming profile, correct?

Thanks for the help :)

-- 
Darren Spruell
Sento I.S. Department
darren_spruell at sento.com



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