[Samba] windows 7 roaming profiles

Chris Weiss cweiss at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 09:08:18 MDT 2012


On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:55 AM, steve <steve at steve-ss.com> wrote:
> 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.

this is exactly how roaming profiles work.  it syncs at logon and
logoff.  What you are looking for is called folder redirection, most
of the user folders can be redirected, but certain things can't mostly
because MS doesn't want to "trust" a network drive for something like
a registry hive.


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