[Samba] samba3 win2k roaming profiles.

[Nathan Brown]

Sorry, Ill be a little more specific.

1. I create user "Joe"
2. I give "joe" a password
3. "joe" logs on and the FOLDER /home/profile/joe (aka. 
\\www\profile\joe) is created.
4. IF a profile exists in \\www\profile\joe and NOT locally, it will 
read it from the server.
5. IF a profile exists LOCALLY, it will NOT read from the server.
6. In BOTH situations, the profile files will NOT be saved to the 
server.

May I also, I'm using Windows 2000 SP4 (But its an upgrade from WINNT).

On Jan 17, 2004, at 9:27 PM, John H Terpstra wrote:

> Nathan,
>
> Workstation default user profiles go in:
> 	C:\Application and User Defaults\'username'
>
> Roaming profiles go in:
>
> logon path/'username'
>
> ie: If "logon path = \\server\profiles"
>
> Fred's profile will go in \\server\profiles\fred
>
> If the UNIX path for the [profiles] share is: /home/profiles
> Fred's profile under UNIX will be in /home/profiles/fred
>
> Note: You must create the directory 'fred' under the profile share 
> because
> Samba does not automatically do that for you. If the directory does not
> exist, the profile will not be saved.
>
> Cheers,
> John T.
>
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Nathan Brown wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
> -- 
> John H Terpstra
> Email: jht at samba.org