[Samba] Roaming Profiles Load Very Slowly

[Andreas Baitis]

You could try moving My Documents to a mapped drive on the server, this 
will speed up log on and log off if there a lot of files in My Documents 
within a given profile. The easiest way is just to drag it to the mapped 
drive then log off and on again, then after confirming that you've 
actually had success, remove the old My Docs folder from the profile. 
Otherwise it can be done in registry editor on XP when logged in as the 
user:

My 
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User 
Shell Folders

There is probably a way to script this but I don't know how.

It seems to speed things up for some of my users with more data in My Docs

Andreas



Greg Koch wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Looking for a bit of help!
>
> I have been using Linux for a while as a hobby, and can get around it 
> pretty quickly.  I have created a Gentoo Samba server and set it as 
> PDC with roaming profiles (there are several other services running on 
> the server as well).  I can login with my XP machines and the profile 
> is downloaded to the machine but it is VERY VERY VERY slow.  After a 
> login is started, there is a blank blue screen (~4min), then the 
> dialog that says "Loading your personal settings..."(~7min), and 
> another that says "Applying your personal settings..."(~6min).  The 
> whole login process takes ~15 minutes with any user.  The server is 
> running an AMD64 2GHz and the client is AMD Athlon 1.32GHz.  I have 
> used these clients on a Windows 2003 Server with AD and roaming 
> profiles before and it didn't take anywhere near this amount of time 
> (usually logon was <1Min).All network drives are mapped properly (home 
> and other shares through login.bat) Logoff seems to only take ~30sec 
> and IS storing the information to the server correctly.
>
> I have searched and searched through Samba docs and Google, and I just 
> can't find anyone that has a viable solution for me.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion or solution?
>
> My smb.conf file is as follows:
> #======================= Global Settings 
> =====================================
> [global]
>    passwd chat = "*New password:*" %n\r "*New password (again):*" %n\r 
> \ "*Password changed*"
>    time server = yes
>    hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/24 127.0.0.0/8
>    interfaces = lo eth0
>    bind interfaces only = yes
>    netbios name = power
>    workgroup = KochHome
>    default = Public
>    local master = yes
>    os level = 65
>    security = domain
>    hide unreadable = yes
>    map to guest = Never
>    domain master = yes
>    null passwords = no
>    hide dot files = yes
>    encrypt passwords = yes
>    passdb backend = tdbsam
>    wins support = true
>    server string = PDC
>    max log size = 50
>    log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>    add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g
>    add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u
>    add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d /dev/null %u
>    delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u
>    delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g
>    add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G %g %u
>    passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>    socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY
>    domain logons = yes
>    logon script = login.bat
>    logon drive = U:
>    logon path = \\%L\%U\windowsprofile
>
> #============================ Share Definitions 
> ==============================
> [homes]
>    comment = Home Directory for %u
>    browseable = no
>    valid users = %S
>    read only = no
>    guest ok = no
>    create mask = 0600
>    directory mask = 0700
>   [netlogon]
>    path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
>    guest ok = no
>    read only = yes
>    browseable = no
>
> I removed several other shares because I figured that information was 
> not required.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> -Greg