[Samba] roaming profiles in a home environment

[Dmitri Colebatch]

On 5/31/07, Adam Tauno Williams <adamtaunowilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm assuming that I'd be better off not using roaming profiles, but
> instead
> > using folder redirection (in outlook's case simply put the files on the
> > share).
>
> Yes.
>
> > So - two questions:
> > 1. Is the above a reasonable viewpoint?
> > 2. Can I setup folder redirect through samba via a policy file, or will
> I
> > need to do it on each PC individually?
>
> You can perform folder redirection via policies from a Samba PDC;  just
> the same as if you were using an NT4 PDC (see older Windows NT domain
> documentation;  this is really a Windows thing,  not specific to Samba).


Thanks Adam, much appreciated.

cheers,
dim