[Samba] Re: Sambas as PDC, remote and mobile users question

Jamrock news_jamrock at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 18 01:39:27 GMT 2006


"daniel parkes" <liquidsmail at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:bda4ad5f0610170417y1d834c20jb09100d08d99bd95 at mail.gmail.com...
> Hy,
>
>
> I have removed, my win2000 servers, and now i am using samba as the pdc.
>
>
> I have a problem with users and their profile, i am using a configuration
> where the profiles are allways local(on the laptop) not on the server.
>
> And the prob is, when a user takes his laptop home, and the company
network
> is not accesible, he cant logon to the domain, so he cant use his domain
> profile, he has to logon to logon to the local computer with his local
> profile, which is outofdate(emails,docs,etc) because the profile he uses
all
> the time is the domain one.
>
>
> I didnt have this problem working with win2000 and AD, because it would
> permit 5 logons, even if the domain wasnt accesible, so they could work
with
> their domain profile at home.
>
>
>
> Any idea if you can tune this in Samba?
>
> Any idea of a workaround, or how do you handel this situation?
>
>
> thnx a lot for your HELP!!
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What happens when he tries to logon to the domain when he is not attached to
the network?  Remove the network cable from the laptop and let us know what
happens.





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