[Samba] profiles, profdata & homes

[Geert Stappers]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:14:01PM -0600, John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Friday 26 August 2005 11:44, Geert Stappers wrote:
 <snip> [homes] [profiles] [profdata] </snip>
> > (profdata is common keyword on the search engines)
> >
> > Is there a document that describes the logon proces?
> > (less detailed that the source code of samba? ;-)
> 
> Geert,
> 
> This has nothing to do with the login process. I used the 'profdat'  share as 
> an example in my book "Samba-3 By Example" to demonstrate how it is possible 
> to implement folder redirection. Check chapter 5 of my book, available 
> on-line at:
> 
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-ByExample.pdf
> 
> Folder redirection makes the loading of roaming profiles snappy and fast 
> because it is not necessary to transfer the entire contents of the profile 
> folders over the network. Also, because the profile is reduced to a very 
> basic information set, it is possible to do away with roaming profiles and 
> instead just have a global Network Default User profile that uses folder 
> redirection. Again, read through chapter 5.


Mmm, again tricked by an optimalization
( http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-August/109681.html
  Now I get it, I did see a strange single trail, but it are several
  trails.  ( s/trail/configuration/ ) )


What about this patch?
--- MASSIVE/smb.conf
+++ MASSIVE/smb.conf
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@

 [profdata]
        comment = Profile Data Share
+       # for folder redirection
        path = /var/lib/samba/profdata
        read only = No
        profile acls = Yes



Cheers
Geert Stappers
rereading chapter 5


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