[Samba] logon path question

[John Paul Hayes]

you need to ensure that the permissions are setup correctly on each of the
users profiles
in the /home/profiles directory. They must belong to the user, otherwise the
profile will not
update when the user logs off.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Paul Hayes" <jphayes at newtownschool.ie>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] logon path question


> yes because the user can delete their profile from their home directory.
> A suggestion would be to create a profiles directory in /home to store
> all the users profiles.
>
> [profiles]
>  path = /home/profiles/%U     # where each profile is named the same as
the
> user.
>  read only = no
>  create mask = 0600
>  directory mask = 0700
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeff Gardiner" <gardiner at imaging.robarts.ca>
> To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 5:29 PM
> Subject: [Samba] logon path question
>
>
> > This link:
> >
> > http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#LOGONPATH
> >
> > States that:
> >
> > "Windows clients can sometimes maintain a connection to the [homes]
share,
> > even though there is no user logged in. Therefore, it is vital that the
> logon
> > path does not include a reference to the homes share (i.e. setting this
> > parameter to \%N\%U\profile_path will cause problems)."
> >
> > I am still having trouble with my roaming profiles.  In my smb.conf I
> have:
> > logon path = \\%L\%U\profile
> > logon home = \\%L\%U\profile
> >
> > and
> >
> > [netlogon]
> > path = /etc/samba/netlogon
> > read only = yes
> > admin users = root
> > write list = @sysgrp
> >
> > [profiles]
> > path = %H/profile
> > read only = no
> > create mask = 0600
> > directory mask = 0700
> >
> > Which means I am putting my roaming profiles in the users home dir.
Could
> I
> > be experiencing the issues described in the link above?  Is that bit
> > basically saying don't store profiles in home dirs?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Jeff Gardiner [ gardiner at imaging.robarts.ca ]
> > System Administrator - Imaging Research Laboratories
> > Robarts Research Institute - London ON, Canada
> > 519.663.5777 x34089
> >
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