[Samba] Testing roaming profiles

[Alex Satrapa]

We have lost some profiles in our network due to Windows XP deciding  
to use a local profile in one login (because it "couldn't find" the  
server profile), then clobbering the server profile with the local  
one on the next login. I'd like some way of testing this through a  
non-interactive means, to emulate a dozen or so users logging in at  
once and messing about with multi-gigabyte profile directories - in  
the first instance to replicate the problem, and then to find some  
means to stop it happening again.

Has anyone already written a tool (eg: script based on smbclient)  
that completely emulates the Windows XP Professional domain login  
process when using roaming profiles? I'd like to avoid setting up a  
dozen Windows workstations and manually logging in to all of them  
each time I want to test a failure scenario.

Alex

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