[Samba] Moving Profiles

[Mark Lidstone]

Hi everyone,

I'm about to install a Samba PDC in a network that previously was
working as a workgroup.  All the users have been logging into their
local machines as "administrator" and all with the same password.

What I would really like to do is to move their profiles with them, but
as they are all using the same username and the like I can see this is
going to cause problems.

So far I have been thinking about doing the following:

	1) Create a second administrator account on each machine
	2) Login as the second administrator and copy the
"administrator" profile to another folder, renamed for the new user's
username (e.g. "Documents and Settings\Administrator" -> "Documents and
Settings\DOMAIN.username")
	3) Change ownership/permissions on the new profile folder to
match that of the new user

I'm also planning on making sure that roaming profiles are disabled
using the "LocalProfile" registry key that Michael Lueck recently posted
about on here.  Users will have a network-home folder that will be
backed up which should be plenty enough for them.

Can anyone point out what problems this will cause?  I think there is
going to be an issue with the registry, is the SID in there somewhere?
How can I reset it?  Is there a better way of doing this?

Many thanks,

Mark Lidstone
IT and Network Support Administrator

BMT SeaTech Ltd
Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way
Ocean Village, Southampton.  SO14 3TJ. UK
Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122         
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E-Mail:  mailto:mark.lidstone at bmtseatech.co.uk
Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk
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