[Samba] Samba 4.5.8-Debian User Profiles on NFS-Share

[Franz Gansberger]

>>> Rowland Penny <rpenny at samba.org> 23.05.2017 12:39 >>>
On Tue, 23 May 2017 12:08:59 +0200
Franz Gansberger via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> 
> > Why ? profiles is a windows thing and NFS isn't
> 
>> The Samba-AD is virtualized, therefore the storage is an a different
>> machine.

>Allow me to introduce you to the 'profilePath' attribute, you can set
>this to where ever you want the profiles to be stored, no need of NFS.

Yeah. :-)
Wouldn't this require the "storage server" to be member of the domain?!
Since I'm in the process of migrating WS to the new environment, the old PDC can't be demounted right now, so my paswords, due to a re-evaluating even some of the usernames are different.  

> 
> I read this, but I have already an information overflow.
> Unfortunately, most of the information found by google is outdated or
> regarding a differten version of OS/Samba

>You are quite correct, a lot of the stuff found by google is old and
>out of date, this is why we have the Samba wiki, why most people ignore
>it, I have no idea. They seem to ask questions that refer to Samba
>on the strangest of forums and mailing lists ;-)

Agree! But - me as an admin, running on a stable environment (e.g. Debian Jessie) can only use the rather old 4.1.6 Samba. 
The developement made big progress in the meantime, and if I would build from source I'm on 4.6.3.
And now the wiki. Valid for which version? ;-)
I decided to run on Strecht, which brought me to 4.5.8...  So now im on average - with knowledge inbetween. ;-)


> 
> > [profiles]
> >    browseable = yes
> > path = /data/data/profiles-nfs
> >    read only = no acl_xattr:ignore system acl = yes
> 
> >Configure the profiles share from withing windows. That could work
> >imo. 
> 
> unfortunately, not working...
> 
> On the same share (profiles), with the same setting I can copy, open,
> execute, rewrite and overwrite files without any problem. permissions
> are correct. Only the demo1.V4 directory which should hold the
> roaming profile is  still showing empty directorys, and no files. 

>If only one profile isn't working then probably there is a problem with
>that profile.

All profiles behaving the same. I have a couple of test users, always starting from scratch (Registry Profile list cleaned, User deleted, Profile deleted, ...

Thanks anyhow!

Franz 


Rowland