[Samba] Move existing Local Profile to Roaming

[A Cline]

Bob and all:

Here is what I ended up doing and it worked well in most cases.

*Create the new UNIX account and Samba account on the Linux box

*Log into the Client computer with the existing local profile as an account 
in the Admin List

*Right-Click on my computer, pick the User Profiles tab, select the users 
local profile and click on the "Copy To" button.

*A dialog box pops up, I typed \\sambaserver\profile\username into the top 
text box.  Then you hit the Copy button twice.  The first time it creates 
the directory, the second time it copies all of the profile to the Samba 
server.

*Next you have to changes the permissions on the profile in Linux.  I telnet 
to the samba server and change the permissions like so `chown -R 
username.username /home/samba/profiles/username

So that's essentially what I did.  It worked in most cases.  One of the 
users had a profile that kept crashing explorer.exe so I had to manually 
copy her stuff, but otherwise I was pleased.

A Cline




>From: "Owens, Bob" <bowens at navtech.com>
>To: "'A Cline'" <acline27 at hotmail.com>, bowens at navtech.com,   
>samba at lists.samba.org
>Subject: RE: [Samba] Move existing Local Profile to Roaming
>Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 19:21:19 -0600
>
>Also try  making a roaming profile for them before copying over there old
>profile in to the new roaming one?
>
>Which would be ishy is you have a lot of users.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: A Cline [mailto:acline27 at hotmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 7:00 PM
>To: bowens at navtech.com; samba at lists.samba.org
>Subject: RE: [Samba] Move existing Local Profile to Roaming
>
>
>Bob:
>
>Yes, the 20 or so new computers that I have attached to the PDC are all
>using Roaming profiles and they work great.  Here are the lines from my
>smb.conf that you requested.
>
>[global]
>logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
>
>[profiles]
>         path = /home/samba/profiles
>         guest ok = yes
>         browseable = no
>         read only = no
>         create mask = 0600
>         directory mask = 0700
>         share modes = no
>
>My and your lines are very similar at the least.  Thanks for any additional
>info.
>
>
> >From: "Owens, Bob" <bowens at navtech.com>
> >To: "'A Cline'" <acline27 at hotmail.com>, samba at lists.samba.org
> >Subject: RE: [Samba] Move existing Local Profile to Roaming
> >Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:49:15 -0600
> >
> >Do you have the following?
> >
> >[global]
> ># Where to store roving profiles (only for Win95 and WinNT)
> >#        %L substitutes for this servers netbios name, %U is username
> >#        You must uncomment the [Profiles] share below
> >    logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U
> >
> >[Profiles]
> >     path = /data/domain/Profiles/
> >     browseable = no
> >     writable = yes
> >     valid users = @domusers
> >     create mode = 0770
> >     directory mode = 0770
> >     force group = root
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: A Cline [mailto:acline27 at hotmail.com]
> >Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 5:59 PM
> >To: samba at lists.samba.org
> >Subject: [Samba] Move existing Local Profile to Roaming
> >
> >
> >Hello:
> >
> >I have a Redhat 7.3 samba server acting as a PDC and running samba
> >2.2.3a-13.
> >
> >I have a few computers with extensive existing profiles and I want to 
>know
> >if anyone knows of a good way to get the COMPLETE profile to the roaming
> >profile on the samba server.  Every manual copy way that I have tried 
>thus
> >far has failed miserably.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >A Cline
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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