[Samba]UPDATE: Copying Windows 2K & XP Profi....

[Guido Lorenzutti]

You change the domain and ONLY fix the unix permissions and you expect 
this to work?  Dream on :)

If you need a hand, I will try to help you, I have to do this on 1800 
users a few days a go, but is to long to write if you don't need it.

Robert Adkins wrote:
> Robert Adkins wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>    In my effort to make the switchover as smooth as possible, I am 
>> thinking that I could copy a user's roaming profile off their 
>> workstation to the profile share on the Samba 3.x server, set the 
>> permissions and then take the workstation off the old domain, put it 
>> on the new domain and then login with the user and just like that, be 
>> done with it.
>>
>>     Is this going to be problematic or is there something I could be 
>> missing that will cause this to backfire on me?
>>
>
>    I gave it a go.
>
>    ...and found out that it just won't fly. I reset all the 
> permissions on the files to match the permissions of the newly created 
> profile for the test account I created. (Save that the profile was set 
> to be owned by the actual user.)
>
>    I fired up their login on the domain, at the workstation and it 
> seemed to load up fine, except Microsoft Outlooked decided that it had 
> never been installed in that user account before, which it shouldn't 
> have done as the users NT profile should have been downloaded to the 
> workstation from the server's copy.
>
>    Anyway, I had to delete the whole user profile and create it 
> through the a "fresh" login and then "trick" MS Outlook into using the 
> right files AFTER it did it's install.
>
>    -Rob