[Samba] Freebsd pdc

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

>
> I haven't used FreeBSD, but I have set up several PDCs. They work ok with
> default settings, however if users have a large amount of data associated
> with their account (in Application Data, My Documents, and/or Desktop
> folders for example), logging off/on can become terribly inefficient. This
> is because Windoze saves all of this local data to the server when the user
> logs off, taking a good bit of time (I've seen 20 minutes or so), while
> putting a strain on both the network and server.

???

That would only be the case if you enabled roaming profiles ; which
isn't active by default either.

And this would be an either wether you use samba PDA or windows server.

>
> The solution to this problem is to change the default location for various
> folders to be on the server, so that the data doesn't need to be copied to
> the server during the logoff process. This is accomplished by creating a
> custom NTConfig.POL file in the netlogon directory which changes the
> location of these folders to reside on the server instead of the local HDD.

no the solution is to disable roaming profiles

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_Windows_Profiles

Don't have a "logon path" set.