[Samba] Profile Location Best Practice

[Server Gremlin]

I have been under the impression that it would indeed be two completely 
separate shares, one for the profile and one for the home directory.  
But I currently have the same setup you do, so I'd also like to hear 
someone else's answer to this question.

Charles Marcus wrote:
>> Yes;  I've got about 200 users who sign on and off every day.  PDC is
>> Samba;  profiles in one share, home directory its own share.  No issues.
>
> Hmmm...
>
> Just noticed something about what you guys are saying...
>
> I have both my home directories and profiles coming from the SAME 
> parent SHARE:
>
> \\server\home
>
> Each users home directory (H:) is mapped to:
>
> \\server\home\username
>
> The new directory I created for Profiles is:
>
> \\server\home\profiles\username
>
> Isn't this accomplishing the same thing? Or does it actually need to 
> be two different, separate SHARES?
>
> I prefer not to create more SHARES than is needed, but if I need to, 
> now is the time to do it, since I'm getting ready to migrate everyones 
> profile to fix this.
>
> Thanks!
>