[Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Linda Walsh <samba at tlinx.org> wrote:
> John Drescher wrote:
>> Also. They can NOT point to the same path. That was the point of
>> having a .v2. Vista+ and XP profiles are not compatible with each
>> other.
> ----
>        What part is incompatible? Or is it known?
> This this is something that I ran into as well, but didn't have
> time to chase down.  But I was disturbed to see my different clients
> now using different profiles when before I could share the same home
> dir.
>
I believe its mostly caused by changes in the folder structure.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/b/a/3ba6d659-6e39-4cd7-b3a2-9c96482f5353/managing%20roaming%20user%20data%20deployment%20guide.doc


http://4sysops.com/archives/windows-vista-and-windows-xp-roaming-user-profiles-interoperability-folder-redirection-is-the-only-way/

John