Shared roaming profiles for all users (XP)?
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Sat Nov 23 05:02:01 GMT 2002
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 14:46, xfesty wrote:
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> Hiya.
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> Is there anyway to make non changable roaming profiles for all users
> with XP workstations, and Samba 3.0HEAD from CVS acting as a PDC?
>
> I'm setting up a bunch of workstations for an internet cafe, and all
> users need to basically have the same settings (i.e. desktop icons,
> Internet Explorer settings, start menu items, etc.) as others, yet not
> be able to change them.
>
> I tried setting the profile dir to the same for all users, and making
> it read only, but I'm experiencing two problems -
>
> (1) XP will refuse to load the profile if its read-only, and
> (2) XP won't load the profile if it wasn't created by the same user.
>
> I'm also finding cookies in IE sometimes aren't being properly set,
> people can't view hotmail attachments, MSN messenger refuses to work,
> and a bunch of other oddities.
>
> Anyway past this? I remember back when I was using Windows 2K Server
> as a PDC, it was possible to have this.
If the ntuser.dat is renamed ntuser.man, and you make the profile owned
by root, read-only to the suer, and you set root to have rid 500 in
LDAP, does it work?
(ie add root to ldap, then change the RID).
I think this is the standard way this is done on NT.
Andrew Bartlett
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Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet at hawkerc.net
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