[Samba] Profile Location Best Practice

[Mike Eggleston]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Eric J. Feldhusen might have said:

> Mike Eggleston wrote:
> >> 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
> 
> If you're using the tdbsam or ldap backends for accounts, you can
> specify profile locations on a per-user basis.

I have the LDAP backend and that was the only way I had found was to
modify the sambaProfilePath value. I wanted to make sure there is not
another way to make this change.

Mike