[Samba] Roaming Profiles Annoyances

[George Diamantopoulos]

Hello,

I've finally managed to get roaming profiles working (kindof). However some 
issues (after lots of googling) remain unresolved. Here's a summary of what 
I've done to date:
1) Setup samba shares according to gentoo-wiki.org
<http://gentoo-wiki.org>(there were some problems with permissions etc
after that but they're ok
now)
2) Edited NTUSER of a foobar user account via the registry and configured it 
for my documents redirection and execution of a inituser.cmd file (runonce 
key)
3) Created an inituser.cmd file under /var/lib/samba/netlogon with the 
following content: start "Copying ..." /min xcopy /I /E /H /K /Y 
"%LOGONSERVER%\NETLOGON\Default User\My Documents" "%HOMESHARE%\"
4) Added map system = yes map archive = yes map hidden = yes in smb.conf to 
prevent desktop.ini from showing up everywhere
6) Loged in as Foobar and configured the profile to my liking
7) I copied c:\documents and settings\Foobar to the /tmp samba share (so the 
file attributes get copied too)
8) Moved it to the netlogon share and renamed it to Default User
9) Setup exclude directories in the local group policy to Temporary Internet 
Files; History; Temp; My Documents)
10) Created new user in linux, created new windows user via smbpasswd
11) Logged in as the new user

Problems:
1) After logging in, the default profile seems to be setup correctly. 
However I have set a custom wallpaper which is located in c:\windows in the 
local machine. After logging in the wallpaper is not there. The only way to 
make it work is right click on the desktop, properties, and open the desktop 
tab. After doing that (I don't even have to click on the wallpaper entry in 
the list, let alone browse for it, it's already there), that is just 
clicking on the desktop tab (I really felt I had to stress this), the 
wallpaper gets loaded in the preview section of the window. Just pressing 
ok, or apply will render it properly on screen. I just cannot understand 
what is the reason why it wasn't set in the first place!

2) Desktop.ini files are hidden. Well except one! When I click on the My 
Documents folder (which is redirected to /home/%U on the linux box running 
the samba service) there's a desktop.ini file in all its glory! I 
right-clicked on it and opened the properties window, where the hidden 
option is unselected. I selected it, clicked on OK and the file is still 
there. I opened the properties window again only to find out that the hidden 
check box is still off... Any ideas?

3) On logging off I get this annoying synchronization thing. I would 
consider it to be normal if it didn't take such a long time! The thing is 
even if I logon locally, as Administrator and then log out again, it also 
popups trying to synchronize all roaming users who have logged on to date on 
that computer (users who have a c:\documents and settings profile on disk I 
presumed...). At a certain point it prompts for a username and password. No 
matter what I provide, it fails. I've read on the net that many people 
disable synchronization but should I? The thing is I don't understand how it 
really works. With roaming profiles on, (but without my documents 
redirection) never had any such window popped up (synchronization)

I'm really desperate so any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thank you in advance,
George