[Samba] Samba PDC and big files

[John H Terpstra]

On 06/24/2010 07:04 AM, Pedro Rafael Alves Simoes wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to setup a PDC with Samba, but I have the known problem of the
> roaming profiles: big files. I think it's difficult to guarantee that a
> inexperienced user will copy is downloaded files, documents, or whatever,
> to a H:\ share instead of is handy desktop. Other problem is the files of
> Outlook or Thunderbird that can get big. The goal is to avoid email
> configuration each time the user changes to another workstation, so I can't
> configure the email client to store the files locally on the workstation.
> 
> Could someone give me some lights in how I can circumvent this problem?
> 
> Thanks.

You need folder redirection.  Read chapter 5 of my book
"Samba3-ByExample" http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-ByExample.pdf

- John T.