[Samba] Outlook path to pst file is lost when using roaming profiles

[Douglas Phillipson]

Is nobody else losing their Outlook profile/path to pst when using 
roaming profiles?

Doug P

Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> We are having a problem getting the path to the Outlook PST file to move 
> from machine to machine using roaming profiles (Samba 3.0.10 on RHEL 4). 
>  When a user logs off on one machine and logs on to another, the outlook 
> path to the PST file is gone.  I found this message in the archive back 
> in 2002 but I see no resolution for it:
> 
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2002-July/047507.html
> 
> Here is the text from that post:
> 
> Does anybody know how to manage roaming profiles with outlook 2002 ? I
> have XP boxes with roaming profiles and all work fine. The only problem
> is that
> XP doesn´t export the path where outlook stores ist .pst file. This is
> not the problem for the .pst file where outlook stores contacts and so.
> The path of the normal pst is on a network drive.  But I have an IMAP
> mail account for every user and if you configure outlook for imap it
> creates another .pst file under the normal path ...Local
> Settings../outlook/
> I am not able to store this file under a different path e.g. a network
> drive. I think that there are 2 ways for my problem:
> 
> 1.) show outlook the path to a network drive for the imap pst as I did
> it for the normal pst --> I don´t know how
> 
> 2.) export the whole outlook path under local settings -->
> 
> It works, but not for a long time:
> 
> After you create an outlook account for the first time, outlook adds a
> registry entry under
> 
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
> --> ExcludeProfileDirs
> 
> In this entry you can add directories of the roaming profile not to
> export. --> because of that, the outlook pst would not exported with the
> roaming profile. If I delete this entry on all workstations under the
> default and the user profile of the registry it works for some time.
> But after some time, I don´t know why the entry is back in the registry
> to not export the outlook folder.
> 
> Does anybody have an idea ?
> 
> Regards sven
> 
> Has anybody else seen this problem or found a resolution?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Doug P