[Samba] profile migration - resend

[Romy Perez Moreno]

Hi,

When ever I had upgraded my samba (since 2.0 up to 3.0.0) the old profiles 
had to be sent to dev/null  :=(

I just trien the CIS replacement as noted at RedHat manual, but it didn't 
work. One computer has 2.2.2a and the other 3.0.0 with obious different 
CIs's. Even I changed the CIS's the profiles weren't ok.

My solution: do a local profile (on any W2K computer), copy (manualy) this 
to the [netlogon] share as "Default User". Now when ever a new user logs, 
the "Default User" profile is downloaded and the user can customize it (if 
you allow it). This worked for about 260 users. Change permissions to 
Default as need so any can read it.

cu.

romy.

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 brian at krusic.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am almost ready to switch over from 2.2.7 to 3 but found 
> that a user profile created in 2.2 doesn't work in 3-
> 
> ie; 
> during login to a Samba 3 server, an error occurs and profile 
> modifications are not permitted or recognized.
> 
> This may seem trivial but I have 50 users, each with complex 
> desktop setups which help them with there daily tasks of CG 
> post production (so some of you know the primadonnas that 
> this env can breed :).
> 
> Does any one know of an elegant solution to profile migration?
> 
> If not, this is what I was planning on doing;
> 
> To circumvent this, I was planning to use the Windows 
> facility of copying 1 profile to another but my problem is 
> getting the 2 Samba domains to co-habitate as I set up each 
> Samba PDC with its own unique name (for testing and the 
> company name is changing so references to the old regime are 
> not desired).
> 
> How would I get a Samba 2.2.7 PDC with domain name ABC to 
> trust another Samba 3.0 PDC with domain name XYZ for the 
> purpose of copyinmg 1 profile to another vi Windows?
> 
> Bri-
> 

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Ing. Romy Perez Moreno
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