[Samba] XP/W2K on Samba 3

[Aaron Kincer]

I am having trouble envisioning a network where people are constantly
signing onto different computers (outside of schools and libraries). If
users move around that much, perhaps a VNC/Citrix/Terminal Services approach
would be better.

Roaming profiles are a solution to a problem that existed before email boxes
measured in hundreds of megabytes or even gigabytes. They will work (for
Windows clients), but can bring your network to its knees. And as mentioned,
the mixing of client OS has an amusing effect sometimes.



Also, roaming

On 10/4/06, Paul-Erik Törrönen <paul-erik.torronen at cardinal.fi> wrote:
>
> I'm going to side on B_Kloss here, since I grew frustrated with the
> local profiles a long time ago.
>
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 19:46 +0200, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> > > This is working fine, but as soon as a user is logging into the
> > domain on one of the WIN2000 or XP-clients for the first time on this
> > client, the client is creating a local user-directory.
> > Are you sure this is a problem?
> > As long as you have enough diskspace, I don't see what should be
>
> Remember that all the settings are also per computer, which in turn
> means that the user will in the end do a set up of his desktop n times
> (n equals the computers available). Also the application settings need
> to be manually copied/set each time. This becomes very frustrating in no
> time for the normal user, and roaming profiles can fix that. And if the
> user decides to change some setting, well...
>
> However there are a few things which needs to be addressed, as pointed
> earlier.
>
> 1. The mixing of W2k and WXP will create some fabulous fireshows,
> non-lethal but nonetheless spectacular.
> 2. Due to the way how the profile is managed in Windows,
> copy-all-on-login-from-server, copy-all-on-logout-to-server, the normal
> user must be made aware of this. Don't save anything on the desktop,
> instead use the X: (automatically mounted to \\yourserver\<user>).
> Minimize the browser cache. Configure applications to explicitly use a
> local tmp-dir (usually setting the TMP and TEMP-variables on the
> workstation suffices). And anything else that minimizes the size of the
> profile directory.
> 3. Occasionally the profile goes *bonk* on the workstation. Usually
> removing the local copy is enough but nonetheless requires
> administrative action.
>
> And probably some other things which my scarred memory supresses.
>
> As for setting up the shared profiles, the keywords in smb.conf are:
>
> [Global]
>     logon drive = X:
>     logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
>     logon script = scripts\logon.bat
>
> [netlogon]
>     path = /path/to/netlogon
>     read only = no
>     nt acl support = Yes
>
> [profiles]
>     comment = Roaming Profile Share
>     path = /path/to/profiles
>     read only = no
>     profile acls = Yes
>     nt acl support = Yes
>
> Poltsi
>
>
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