[Samba] Re: PDC without profiles?

[Paul Gienger]

Michael Lueck wrote:

>On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:31:03 -0500, Paul Gienger wrote:
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>>Rather than monkey with each client, just don't define a [profiles] 
>>share.  I'll check one of our setups tomorrow, we have a site with no 
>>roaming there (for now).
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>I did not have a roaming share defined and Win2K put up a fuss that it was
>missing and assigned a temp one which was erased at each logoff. Not quite the
>affect of having a local profile.
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Actually, on that server we also have a blank logon path specified which 
is populated on the other servers.  This is on 2.2.8, so YMMV, but I 
would guess it works on 3.0.x.

>With electronic software distribution managing each client, there is no issue
>sending out such small registry updates globally... think outside the box and
>what now seems a challenge becomes very easy.
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I'm guessing you either use a program that you set up once on each 
workstation which may or may not be a pay-ware solution.  Some places 
simply don't have the budget to buy such things.  Also remember, every 
change you make to a client is one more thing to screw up, although in 
this case it sounds as if you're doing it automatically.  I guess I 
personally subscribe to the theory of making the smallest change 
possible, that is if I can make a simple change to the server that 
avoids me having to change every client's configuration then at the 
server it will happen.

>Michael Lueck
>Lueck Data Systems
>http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
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