[Samba] Re: little bit OT: Profile for new domain user

[Jamrock]

"Uwe Bering" <edv at lwv-friedberg.de> wrote in message
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> Hi there,
>
> SuSE 8.2 Prof.+Samba 3.0.3 / WinXP Prof clients:
>
> I made a script to create new users (creates homedir, sets
> permissions, creates personalized logon-batch, creates smbpasswd and
> something more).
>
> When the new user logs in for the first time from the client-machine
> (domain-logon, only domain-users, no local users), he gets default
> profile with the xp-style menus and so on.
>
> I tried to copy a profile from the local machine to
> '/home/netlogon/default user', but it doesn't work.
>
> Can I provide a default profile with predifined settings for any new
> domain user?
> How do I create it?
> Where to place?
> Anything to do to activate?
>

The Samba How To has a good section on roaming profiles.  See the
sub-section entitled "Default Profile for Windows Users"