[Samba] Turning Off Roaming Profiles? (resend)

John H Terpstra jht at samba.org
Sun Feb 16 09:13:43 GMT 2003


On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Jarl McConnel wrote:

> Sigh, here is me, trying to make a decent first impression of myself by
> providing as much information as I could, and then Outlook Expresses 'Send
> message later' option does something I didn't expect it to. So, here is the
> full message.
>
> Basically, as the subject says, I've found heaps of information on turning
> them on, but I don't particularly want them as my profile is quite large.
> I'm not quite sure why its even trying to use roaming profiles, I don't have
> a logon path = set in my smb.conf.
>
> My only guess is that if it doesn't find the logon path, it just puts the
> profile in your logon home directory in a subdirectory called profile.  If
> anyone can give me some info in to how to turn this functionality off it'd
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Below is what I believe to be relevant bits of my smb.conf file.
>
> [global]
>         netbios name = CASPAR
>         encrypt passwords = true
>         local master = yes
>         preferred master = yes
>         logon script = logon.bat
>         domain logons = yes
>         domain master = yes
>         logon drive = H:
>         logon home = \\caspar\%u

	  logon home =

This should do. Note: Nothing after the '=' should set this to 'do not
use'.


>         os level = 99
>
> [homes]
>         path = /home/%u/shared
>         create mode = 0600
>         directory mode = 0700
>         read only = No
>         browseable = No
>
> [netlogon]
>         path = /home/samba/netlogon
>         read only = No
>         read list = nobody
>
>
> Domain logons work (almost) perfectly for my needs except for this problem.
> The other problems aren't so much ones which would stop me from using samba
> as a PDC, just little annoyances like group mappings.

Please check previous postings on this. You should use Linux file system
permission to control this.

- John T.

>
> I am using samba version 2.2.3a-12 for Debian (Debian 3.0).
>
> If anyone could help it'd be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>

-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org


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