[Samba] Profile Location Best Practice
Mike Eggleston
mikeegg1 at mac.com
Tue Oct 16 19:35:40 GMT 2007
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Charles Marcus might have said:
> >Eric Feldhusen, you've pretty much convinced me that best practice is
> >having profiles stored in one place, and home folders in another.
> >But I'm still curious if you have also experienced these problems
> >even with such a configuration. Either way, I think the merits of
> >such a configuration are clear; I just wonder if I can expect even
> >these problems to go away, or if I shouldn't get my hopes up quite
> >that much.
>
> Well... I created a new directory structure:
>
> home directory = \server\home\username (unchanged)
> profile directory = \server\home\profiles\username (new)
>
> I've already switched one user over who was having a weird problem with
> a printer not appearing on the receptionist computer (she covers for the
> receptionist when she goes to lunch, etc). That problem is now resolved,
> while nothing else I tried worked.
>
> So, I'm hopeful that this will indeed fix these other mysterious
> problems. After some reading on this, I'm embarrassed that I never
> encountered this 'best practice' knowledge before...
>
> Many thanks to Eric for the whack upside the head...
How do you switch only a single user at a time?
Mike
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