[Samba] Profile Location Best Practice
Server Gremlin
servergremlin at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 16:24:47 GMT 2007
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!
>
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