[Samba] Move from roaming to local profiles

[Donny Brooks]

On Friday, January 11, 2013 10:21 AM CST, Norberto Bensa <nbensa+samba at gmail.com> wrote: 
 
> Hello,
> 
> first, I'm sorry for making you wait for so long. I had some personal
> problems that required my attention.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Donny Brooks <dbrooks at mdah.state.ms.us> wrote:
> > 1. Log in as user on old domain, verify stuff works
> > 2. Log out and in as local administrator
> > 3. Change from olddomain to newdomain, reboot
> 
> Ok
> 
> > 4. Log in as user on newdomain, creates new profile (obviously since it is a "new user")
> 
> Nope.
> 
> 
> You should remain logged as administrator, change permissions on the
> user folder to the user of the newdomain. Then, from regedit, load the
> user registry and change its permissions.
> 

I did as you said and changed permissions on the files and registry. Still when I logged in as the user on the new domain it created a username.NEWDOMAIN folder. It's not a big deal if I have to do it the way I was able to make it work. Kind of cuts down on the user profile garbage.


> 
> > 5. Reboot to make sure profile is not locked and log in as local administrator
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Everything else is unnecessary, just login as the user in the new
> domain and it should work.
> 
> 
> HTH,
> Norberto
 
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Donny B.