[Samba] roaming profiles from BDC only, not from PDC
Tomasz Chmielewski
mangoo at mch.one.pl
Wed Dec 15 14:22:16 GMT 2004
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> rruegner wrote:
>
>> hi,
>> you can store your profiles on whatever samba server you want as long
>> it is trusted to
>
>
> You didn't understand my question.
>
> 1) in each office, there is only one domain controller (costs), against
> which users authenticate and store roaming profiles (they are stored
> locally on their workstations, too)
>
> 2) if a local domain controller is down, they should be able to
> authenticate against a domain controller over VPN/WAN - but use local
> profile only.
>
> How to prevent users from trying to retrieve/upload a profile to/from a
> given domain controller?
>
> I can do it by putting some broken profile path on that domain
> controller, but then users when logging in see a window "their profile
> path can't be found, contact administrator etc.", which I want to avoid.
OK, this was easy.
You have to put only
logon path =
And roaming profiles won't be used.
I tried that previously but it didn't work, it appeared there were
routing problems.
Tomek
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