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

[Robert Schetterer]

Hi,
i have all kind of versions of outlook ( 2000/xp/2003) running with 
roaming profiles and samba pdc and i dont have any problem loosing the 
pst path, on win 2000/xp, perhaps this was a bug from outlook configured
using with imap, check about that, note that every outlook patchlevel 
behaves different, so check the outlook patch level too.
I dont recommend setting regs , for the default pst i think it is better
to use a adm/ntconfig.pol
Regards


Douglas Phillipson schrieb:
> 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

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