[Samba] Profiles

[Robert Adkins]

Even though it might not look like it is so, your profiles are likely 
only being stored locally.

In our case, I have a dmusers group that each user is a member of and 
the dmusers group has rw rights to the profiles directory on the server.

What Windows does is store the profile on the local machine and will 
update the 'roaming profile' on the server, if applicable. You might not 
be seeing or receiving an error message stating that they aren't able to 
update/upload the profile to the server.

Check in your Windows Event viewer to see if there are any message 
stating that.

 I would also check permissions on the 'profiles' directory. It might 
need a decent alteration of the existing permissions to allow the 
profiles to be updated.

    -Rob

Miles Scruggs wrote:

>I have a few weird problems with profiles on my samba PDC.  Right now I'm
>just testing with two XP pro clients.  Samba is
>Samba version 3.0.2a-Debian
>
>The problems that I'm having and I believe are related are:
>
>1.) Profiles are saved to the server, but don't migrate to different
>clients.  This is very odd, I can make all sorts of changes to the profile
>and I can see those changes being saved to the server.  When I log back in
>those changes are loaded to the local machine, if I try to login to another
>client, I see a totally separate profile.  
>
>The kicker is that all data is being saved to the same path, but somehow it
>can differenetite which client is logging in.
>
>2.) Once the profile is created on one client, the home dir is writable to
>only that client.
>
>The home dirs and profile dir is two separate locations
>
>/home/%u for homedirs
>/home/profile/%u for profiles
>
>
>Thanks for the help
>
>Miles
>
>
>  
>


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    Regards,
    Robert Adkins 
    IT Manager/Buyer
    Impel Industries, inc.
    586-254-5800