[Samba] roaming profiles, not roaming

[Jack Mendez]

the profiles get saved ack to the samba machine no problem, its just when
the user moves to a different machine that the correct profiles does not
get downloaded
the profiles are owned by username.group.
On Mon, November 21, 2005 5:27 pm, Craig White said:
> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 13:48 -0500, Jack Mendez wrote:
>> using samba v3 windows xp sp2 clients.
>> i have profiles working to some extent, that is when i create a new user
>> on the server, when that user logs in, the profile gets downloaded from
>> the server from the /etc/netlogon/default user directory.
>> any customizations that the user makes work just fine and get saved to
>> the
>> profiles share under profiles/username
>> when the user tries to go to a different machine the settings and such
>> do
>> not get downloaded from the server.
>> it is only when the user logs into the first system do the changes come
>> back are visible.
>> any ideas?
>>  here are the sections for profiles from the smb.conf
>>
>> logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
>>         logon drive = G:
>>         logon home = \\%L\%U
>>
>>
>> [profiles]
>>         path = /profiles/
>>         dos file mode = Yes
>>         read only = No
>>         writable = yes
>>         create mode = 0600
>>         directory mode = 0700
>>         browseable = yes
>>         profile acls = yes
>>
> -----
> hopefully, 'ls -ld' /profiles should have group set to something like
> whatever groupmaps to "Domain Users" and that group also has 'w' write
> privileges so that the user profile can be updated on server.
>
> example...
> # grep profiles /etc/samba/smb.conf
>         path = /home/samba/profiles
>
> # ls -ld /home/samba/profiles/
> drwxrwxr-x  2 root dom_users 4096 Nov 11 14:47 /home/samba/profiles/
>
> [root at srv1 postfix]# net groupmap list |grep "Domain Users"
> Domain Users (S-1-5-21-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-513) ->
> dom_users
>
>
> Craig
>
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