[Samba] Roaming profiles. How to do it ?

Flávio Henrique flavinhohenrique at terra.com.br
Thu Jun 24 18:21:21 GMT 2004


Matthias Spork escreveu:

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> Do not use one share for Home and Profile.
> Read this:
> http://www.idealx.org/prj/samba/smbldap-howto.en.html
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> matze


thank you for the answer, but like I said, I'm serving win98 clients, 
not WinNT/XP/2000, and the tutorial deals with theses clients

my big doubt is if the options that I discribe above is right or not to 
do what I want.
maybe I'm setting the wrong option.

Thank youy again.

Flávio Henrique

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> Flávio Henrique schrieb:
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>> Hi all..
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>> I'm using Samba 3.0.2a on Mandrake 10, serving +/- 50 win98 clients.
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>> I'm using this options:
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>> logon path = \\%N\%U\profile
>> logon home =  \\%N\%U\profile
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>> but the roaming profile seems do not working... at least the way that 
>> I want. (maybe this is the right behavior).
>>    What I want:
>>    -> When an user logins on MACHINE1 the profile that is saved in 
>> Linux begin download to MACHINE1
>>    -> When this user logoff from MACHINE1 the profile must update on 
>> linux server
>>    -> If this user logins on MACHINE2 the profile (updated) must be 
>> downloaded to MACHINE2
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>> But is not happen like this. When the user logins for the first time 
>> on MACHINE1 a local profile is created using the "All users" folder 
>> (under \windows\profiles)
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>> I'm not sure if the option " logon home = \\%N\%U\profile " tells 
>> Samba to do what I want.
>>
>> Somone can help me ?
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Flávio Henrique
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