[Samba] windows 7 roaming profiles

[Jorell]

On 3/27/2012 5:55 AM, steve wrote:
> Hi
> Samba4 DC and win 7 clients.
>
> The user profiles are stored in a profiles share:
> [profiles]
> path = /home/CACTUS/profiles
> read only = No
>
> This works OK and the user can logon to different boxes with the same
> profile. The profile folders such as Desktop, Downloads etc. however,
> also appear stored on the local disk under c:\users\username. Any file
> saved e.g. on the Desktop, is not saved to the roaming profile until the
> user logs off.
>
> It seems pointless to have a roaming _and_ a local profile.
>
> A few qns:
> 1. What am I doing wrong?
> 2. Is it correct that the profile files are not synced until the user
> logs off?
> 3. Unless /the profiles folder is world read/write, the user gets logged
> on with a temporary profile. Correct?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve

1. looks like your doing nothing wrong.
2. correct.
3. there maybe a few tricks to deal with this but at the moment I do not 
know what they are.

what you might be looking for is to remap user folders, this would be in 
the group policies.