[Samba] windows 7 roaming profiles

[Miguel Medalha]

>> NO, IT DOESN'T!
>
> Microsoft disagrees - see below.
>

You are introducing a new theme altogether: Offline Files. On a local 
and *reliable* network, you can use folder redirection *without* Offline 
Files. I did it and it works.

>> What you describe is the behavior of normal *roaming profiles*.
>
> No... you can use a combination of roaming profiles and redirected 
> folders for the best result, which is what I do.

That's precisely what I was advocating. Please read my posts.


> The stuff in t he roaming profiles (very little) is copied back/forth 
> at login/out, the stuff in t he redirected folders is *synchronized* 
> at all times using the Offline Files technology that has long existed 
> in Microsofts products.
>

Maybe you were not very clear in your first post. You said the following:

"Folder Redirection will always (...) store local cached copy of those 
folders on the local computer... what it accomplishes is it saves all of 
the copying back and forth when logging in/out."

which is not true. Even with Offline Files, only the files you are 
working with will be synchronized back and forth. The redirected folders 
themselves and the files previously stored therein will not be 
transferred to the client machine. This makes a big difference because 
we may be talking about Gigabytes of data. A roaming profile without 
folder redirection does transfer the whole profile, which might have 
been a good idea a decade ago but is not feasible with the amounts of 
data we work with today.

> Yes, but they will *also* reside on the *local computer*.
>

As I said before, only the files you are modifying will have a local 
instance, which will be synchronized to the server at logout.