[Samba] Re: No Roaming profiles local only

[Carl Weiss]

I've had success with
logon home =
logon path =
but if your using LDAP it will override these settings so you need to set
those fields blank in you LDAP user as well.

-=Carl=-

<David.Grudek at anixter.com> wrote in message
news:OF67DA9038.24720F61-ON86256DDB.0051E67C-86256DDB.0058C3DF at anixter.com...
> On a windows server there is a local profile by default unless you tell it
> to have a roaming profile.  I want to have the same thing happen.  All the
> machines say that they used the local copy   then a couple seconds later
> it says it could not copy to the server and any changes will not be saved.
>  I know that I could let it be a roaming and switch it to a local later
> but in a larger enterprise that is too much work.
>
> I tried this in my smb.conf on debian testing with samba 3.0
>
> logon home = ""
> logon path = ""
>
> I used to use this on redhat  8 with samba 2.28a before and it worked.
>
> and     logon home = c:\documents and settings\%u
>              logon path = c:\documents and settings\%u
>
> I saw this on a web site and so I tried it but it did not work.
>
> I bought the book called The official Samba 3 howto and reference guide.
> What a great book but it says in there if you want to disable roaming
> profiles, there are three ways to do it.  Do it in the smb.conf file but
> does not show how just says to do it.  Then it says to do it in the
> windows registry but this is not practical to do to 100 workstations.  Or
> to leave as roaming and then switch to local which is also not practical
> to do to 100 workstations.   There should be a way to just make it do
> local on the fly as it creates the profile as windows does it.  I would
> like to know how your smb.conf file should look in order to accomplish
> this.  Any help would be appreciated.
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