[Samba] roaming profiles in a home environment

Josh Kelley joshkel at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 13:42:52 GMT 2007


On 5/31/07, Charles Marcus <CMarcus at media-brokers.com> wrote:
> I would recommend against doing this... Microsoft itself recommends
> against it, but I have also had problems with corruption in .pst files
> that are stored on a network share, both on Windows shares *and* Samba
> shares...

Just to share my own experience, we've been running our PSTs off of
Samba shares for several years now without seeing any corruption.  We
used to have some locking errors with this setup, but adding the
following line to smb.conf stopped them:

   veto oplock files = /*.pst/*.PST/

Josh Kelley


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