[Samba] Vista roaming profiles...

Adam Williams awilliam at mdah.state.ms.us
Wed Dec 17 14:39:23 GMT 2008


vista works fine for me w/ roaming profiles.  i can send you my smb.conf 
and LDAP entries if you wish to take a look.

John Doe wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> after many weeks of searching/trying, I still can't manage to get vista to use/save roaming profiles with samba as PDC...
> It has apparently worked a few times in the beginning since the profiles directories are populated.
> Could it be related to a Vista update or SP1?
> Here's what I did so far:
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System]
> "CompatibleRUPSecurity"=dword:00000001
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\netlogon\parameters
> "RequireSignOrSeal"=dword:00000000
>
> [Profiles]
>     path = /home/samba/
>     browseable = yes
>     writable = yes
>     create mode = 0600 
>     directory mask = 0700
>     csc policy = disable
>     nt acl support = no
>     read only = no
>
> [Profiles.V2]
>   copy = Profiles
>
> Created /home/samba/<user>.V2 directories...
>
> I have three questions:
> 1. Anything to fix/improve in my confs?
> 2. Do you know a good howto for Vista and samba?
> 3. If I fix the issue, is there a possibility of overwriting my users recent local profiles with the old server profiles?   Should I empty the profiles directories first?
>
> Thx,
> JD
>
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