samba - Dec 2002 - Profiles and Win2000

Hi
We're running Samba 2.2.7a as a PDC for Windows2000 SP2 Clients.
Everthing works just fine, but there is one problem:
The clients save their profiles on the PDC (~/.Profiles), but don't 
delete the local copy of the profile (C:\My Documents\$user).
This causes a really big problem, since the client's HD's aren't
that
big and these profiles grow every day.
Is there any way to stop Windows 2000 from saving those profiles 
locally?
I found some threads in the archive, but not a real solution.
Any hints?
-- 
Fridtjof Busse
Real programmers never work 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around
at 9 am, it's because they were up all night.

Fridtjof,

The attached registry update file will solve your problem.
Just double-click on it while logged in as 'Administrator' and it will
set
the registry so that on log-out each the user's roaming profile will be
deleted from the local cache.

PS: I added this file to the ~samba/docs/Registry directory for future
reference. It will be in samba-3.0.0.

- John T.

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Fridtjof Busse wrote:
> Hi
> We're running Samba 2.2.7a as a PDC for Windows2000 SP2 Clients.
> Everthing works just fine, but there is one problem:
> The clients save their profiles on the PDC (~/.Profiles), but don't
> delete the local copy of the profile (C:\My Documents\$user).
> This causes a really big problem, since the client's HD's
aren't that
> big and these profiles grow every day.
> Is there any way to stop Windows 2000 from saving those profiles
> locally?
> I found some threads in the archive, but not a real solution.
> Any hints?
>
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\winlogon

"DeleteRoamingCache"=dword:00000001

Hi
I still have a problem with Windows 2000 SP2 and Samba 2.2.7a:
I set DeleteRoamingProfiles to 1 and deleted all old profiles.
Now Windows sometimes creates/backups a local profile for every user 
*and* every login, e.g.:
user.domain, user.domain.000, user.domain.001, user.domain.002...
I thought they were deleted after setting "csc policy = delete", but 
they aren't.
Found some reports about this phenomenon, but no fix.
Any more hints?
-- 
Fridtjof Busse
BOFH excuse #236:
Fanout dropping voltage too much, try cutting some of those little 
traces