I would like to setup a samba PDC with mandatory profiles for my school. I know that I can easily use them for XP (centralized) and that for Win 98 I have to put them in the user accounts. Now my question: do I have to put a profile in the user account each time a new user is made? Or is there a simple way of doing this. (off course I would link it to one profile, but this way I still have to link it myself...) (there are a lot of users, and each year 200 extra users should be activated, so it would be nice to automate this proces)
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 07:48, Ivo Dancet wrote:> I would like to setup a samba PDC with mandatory profiles for my school. > I know that I can easily use them for XP (centralized) and that for Win > 98 I have to put them in the user accounts. Now my question: do I have > to put a profile in the user account each time a new user is made? Or is > there a simple way of doing this. (off course I would link it to one > profile, but this way I still have to link it myself...) > > (there are a lot of users, and each year 200 extra users should be > activated, so it would be nice to automate this proces)You may set the logon path to the central share. I wrote a VFS module that fakes up the permissions required, call vfs_fake_perms.so, which is built with Samba 3.0. There is also an option 'profile acls' in the smb.conf. Use one or the other on the share that holds the *mandetory profile only*, otherwise you will have problems reading the profile to the client. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet@samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet@hawkerc.net http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20040206/02b21414/attachment.bin
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Ivo Dancet wrote:> I would like to setup a samba PDC with mandatory profiles for my school. > I know that I can easily use them for XP (centralized) and that for Win > 98 I have to put them in the user accounts. Now my question: do I have > to put a profile in the user account each time a new user is made? Or is > there a simple way of doing this. (off course I would link it to one > profile, but this way I still have to link it myself...) > > (there are a lot of users, and each year 200 extra users should be > activated, so it would be nice to automate this proces)I have documented this in detail in Chapter 6 of my new book, "Samba-3 by Example", ISBN: 0131472216. This book will be available in April and can be pre-ordered from Amazon.Com now. In summary, you need to create a group profile, set the appropriate permissions inside it using the Windows XP profiles migration tool, then install it in your PDC netlogon share (in the root directory) in a folder called 'Default Profile'. The whole procedure is a little more complicated. The book is your best choice for now. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org