[Samba] roaming profiles, not roaming

Louis van Belle louis at van-belle.nl
Mon Nov 28 22:50:06 GMT 2005


This is a common setup issue, 
set profiles acls = no

rights /data/sambaprofiles  777
create mask 600
directorie mask 700


this wil work.

Louis

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> Namens Jack Mendez
> Verzonden: maandag 28 november 2005 17:45
> Aan: Craig White
> CC: samba at lists.samba.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] roaming profiles, not roaming
> 
> i did verify that the profile was in fact a roaming profile 
> the profile downloads just fine from the system that we first 
> logon too with that user.
> any changes made with the same user on the original system do 
> get saved to the server, i had a look in the /profiles/user 
> name/Desktop directory for files we placed on the desktop 
> after logging off, the files are on the server.
> when we go to another machine configured exactly the same way 
> log on as that same user not does the profile not load but 
> what looks like a local xp profile loads.
> i also tried making a new user on the smb box logging on with 
> the same system which was displaying the wrong profile, and 
> it woks fine, as long as the profile gets downloaded from the 
> same system that it initially worked on, it seems to work fine.
> i am stumped.
> 
> 
> On Mon, November 21, 2005 7:28 pm, Craig White said:
> > On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 18:21 -0500, Jack Mendez wrote:
> >> 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.
> > ----
> > Then it would seem to me that the possibilities...
> >
> > the other machines aren't properly joined to the domain.
> > or
> > the profile that is on the system that is working is not 
> set to roam 
> > at all...verify...Start->Settings->Control 
> > Panel->System->Advanced->User
> > Profiles->Settings
> >
> > Is the type for the user 'roaming' ?
> >
> > How about another user account on one of the other 
> machines...log in, 
> > log out...does profile get saved to server? Does profile 
> get loaded to 
> > first machine?
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
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