[Samba] Disabling Roaming Profile Support

[Jeff Dickens]

Well on my setup unless I manually set the profile to local or set a
registry setting to allow only local profiles, it always fails to create a
local profile.  I can't figure out why.


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Jeff Dickens <jeff at seamanpaper.com> wrote:

> I have "logon drive =" in smb.conf but testparm does not report that.
>
> Does it on your system, Marcio?
>
> ex:
>
> root at grackle:~# grep logon /etc/samba/smb.conf
>    domain logons = yes
>    logon drive =
>    logon home =
>    logon path =
> [netlogon]
>    path = /home/samba/netlogon
> root at grackle:~#
> root at grackle:~# testparm | grep logon
> Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
> ...snip...
> Loaded services file OK.
> Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_PDC
> Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
>
>         logon path =
>         logon home =
>         domain logons = Yes
> [netlogon]
>         path = /home/samba/netlogon
> root at grackle:~#
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Jeff Dickens <jeff at seamanpaper.com>wrote:
>
>> From
>> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ProfileMgmt.html:
>>
>> Disabling Roaming Profile Support
>>
>> The question often asked is, “How may I enforce use of local profiles?”
>> or “How do I disable roaming profiles?”
>>
>> There are three ways of doing this:
>> In smb.conf
>>
>> Affect the following settings and ALL clients will be forced to use a
>> local profile: logon home =
>> <http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/smb.conf.5.html#LOGONHOME>and logon
>> path =
>> <http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/smb.conf.5.html#LOGONPATH>
>>
>> The arguments to these parameters must be left blank. It is necessary to
>> include the = sign to specifically assign the empty value.
>>
>>
>> This apparently no longer works, or at least it doesn't work properly
>> with an LDAP server.
>>
>> Can anyone comment on why? I'm running Samba 3.6.3-2 on Ubuntu 12.04.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *     Jeff Dickens*
>>      IT Manager      978-632-1513
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> *     Jeff Dickens*
>      IT Manager      978-632-1513
>
>
>


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*     Jeff Dickens*
     IT Manager      978-632-1513