[Samba] Is there a way to support both local and roaming profile with one server / domain?

Adam Tauno Williams adamtaunowilliams at gmail.com
Sat Jul 14 19:59:01 GMT 2007


> I'm not sure of a way to do it in Samba literally, but I have some 
> "local" users on my roaming network. They are given a local user account 
> on a workstation and they log into the local computer instead of the 
> domain. Samba still handles all authentication for the user when they 
> want to access Samba shares. But as far as a way to configure Samba for 
> both, I don't have an answer. I would be highly interested to know how 
> if it were possible.

Sure, use domain policies.  A user can be set to use a local or roaming
profile.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/winntas/maintain/featusability/prof_pol.mspx?pf=true



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