[Samba] samba3 win2k roaming profiles.

[John H Terpstra]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Nathan Brown wrote:

> I'm running Windows 2000 Professional and Samba 3.0.1 and I can't seem
> to get roaming profiles to work right. When there are no profiles
> stored locally on the win2k machine, and a user logs in for the first
> time, it successfully reads the profile from the server in the
> \\netlogon\Default User  share. Next, if you manually copy the profile
> to server and login to the workstation, it will read the profile.
>
> The problem comes in when any changes are made to the profile or if a
> profile exists (for that user) on the workstation, it won't read the
> profile from the server nor will it update the profile on the server
> when they log off. I can't tell if this is a Windows problem or a Samba
> problem, but everything looks like it set correctly in Samba and on
> Windows and I just don't know what to do now!

What you see is the correct Windows behavior. Windows will read the
Default Network Profile only the to create the users' default profile.
That default will be stored on the local windows workstation in the
default location. If roaming profiles are enabled, the users' default
profile will be written to the profile share in a directory named as the
user.

You can configure the workstation to delete a roaming profile on logout.
Whent that is done, if the user has a 'per user' default profile it will
be used in preference to the Network Default User profile.

Cheers,
John T.

>
> Samba Config:
>
> [global]
>          workgroup = WORKSTATION
>          time server = Yes
>          log level = 11
>          logon script = %u.bat
>          logon drive = h:
>          domain logons = Yes
>          os level = 33
>          preferred master = Yes
>          domain master = Yes
>          profile acls = yes
>          logon home = \\www\%u
>          logon path = \\www\profile\%u
>          profile acls = yes
>
> [profile]
>          create mask = 0777
>          directory mask = 0777
>          writable = yes
>          browseable = yes
>          path = /home/profiles
>
> [netlogon]
>          path = /usr/local/netlogon
>          read only = No
>          locking = No
>          root preexec = /usr/local/netlogon/logonscript.pl %U %M %m
>          root postexec = /usr/local/netlogon/logoutscript.pl %U %M %m
>
> [homes]
>          comment = Home Directories
>          read only = No
>          create mask = 0700
>          browseable = No
>
>

-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org