[Samba] samba + windows xp + roaming profiles

Xavier Callejas xcallejas at ibcinc.com.sv
Tue Aug 3 19:52:51 GMT 2004


nop, it din't work out.
anyway thankyou very much, do you have an other idea?? :)

El Mar 03 Ago 2004 13:38, Alex Grönholm escribió:
> Xavier Callejas wrote:
> > Hi, I'm having a problem with the roaming profiles and windows xp.
> >
> > The problem is that when a new user creates automatically a roaming
> > profile and when he logs out the profile stay in the home dir. when he
> > 'relogin' the 'desktop.ini' files stop working beacuse they are not
> > 'hidden' anymore, and all the folders loss its propertis.
> >
> > Why is that?? what is the solution????
>
> You can only store so much information in the UNIX permissions. My
> solution was to activate extended attribute support and disable the old
> style attribute mapping:
>
> 	ea support = yes
> 	map archived = no
> 	map hidden = no
>          map system = no
> 	store dos attributes = yes
>
> This way the system stores the DOS attributes in the extended
> attributes. You need to have a filesystem that supports extended
> attributes (e.g. ext3 & xfs) for this to work.

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