[Samba] samba3 win2k roaming profiles.

[Nathan Brown]

Perhaps I have a faulty Windows setup because I used the group policy 
editor gpedit.msc and set it to delete all profiles after you logout 
and to wait for roaming profiles. Perhaps I should re-install? Also, 
where are the profiles supposed to go? The same place it downloaded it 
from; the "logon path"?


On Jan 17, 2004, at 8:10 PM, John H Terpstra wrote:

> 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