samba - Dec 2004 - Roaming profiles - exclude Application Data from roaming profile

Hello All,

I have a problem with my roaming profiles where they are becoming too 
large due to the Thunderbird mail accounts (stored by default) in 
Application Data. What I would like to do is exclude this directory from 
being part of the roaming profile. How can I do this?

Also, how hard is it to have some users not use a roaming profile but 
others continuing to use a roaming profile? We have some laptop users 
that don't need roaming but office staff which do benefit from the use 
of roaming profiles.

Thanks in advance,
Brett Carruthers

Brett Carruthers schrieb:
> Hello All,
>
> I have a problem with my roaming profiles where they are becoming too 
> large due to the Thunderbird mail accounts (stored by default) in 
> Application Data. What I would like to do is exclude this directory 
> from being part of the roaming profile. How can I do this?
>
> Also, how hard is it to have some users not use a roaming profile but 
> others continuing to use a roaming profile? We have some laptop users 
> that don't need roaming but office staff which do benefit from the use 
> of roaming profiles.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Brett Carruthers
Hi,
choose the folder of storing mail file in the account settings of 
thunderbird , or better use
imap if possible 8 so you dont have to download mail )
consult thunderbird help faqs,

if you got in trouble with firebird cache, you can set another folder 
for cache in default.ini ( i thought this was the name , look in the 
help files here too )
or minimize it, this should solve profile problems.

a good place for all this stuff may be the home directory of the user on 
the samba server , or a place on clients computer local storage
if this fits to your security

Regards

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| I have a problem with my roaming profiles where they are becoming too
| large due to the Thunderbird mail accounts (stored by default) in
| Application Data. What I would like to do is exclude this directory from
| being part of the roaming profile. How can I do this?
|
| Also, how hard is it to have some users not use a roaming profile but
| others continuing to use a roaming profile? We have some laptop users
| that don't need roaming but office staff which do benefit from the use
| of roaming profiles.

Options:

1. If you haven't already implemented folder redirection for Application
~ Data and My Documents, you may want to seriously consider it.  This
will allow you to maintain the info on the server without having to
download the whole thing each time a user logs in.

See:

http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SambaThreeDomainController#Performance_Issues

Mine uses the above in conjunction with a mapped drive that points at
the users home directory.  Cool thing about this is that a sneaky dude
can use this to share email between a Windows Thunderbird client and a
Linux Thunderbird client. That's how I got mine set up although it is a
bit tricky.

2. You can manually change the directories from within Thunderbird to a
directory that is local.  The user will not be able to access his or her
mail on other machines of course.  For example, one might create a
subdirectory of C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Documents\Application Data\[username]\Thunderbird and keep all of
Thunderbird's stuff here.

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Brett Carruthers wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have a problem with my roaming profiles where they are becoming too 
> large due to the Thunderbird mail accounts (stored by default) in 
> Application Data. What I would like to do is exclude this directory 
> from being part of the roaming profile. How can I do this?
This is a problem for us too, but we tell those that like to hoard data 
that they have to deal with the login delay.  It's their choice, learn 
or deal, although I do respect that you have migration issues.  The 
mailbox files from TBird are actually mbox format so they could go 
straight up if you use that, or else you can run mb2md on them to 
migrate to maildir, with some manual tweaking or auxilary scripting.
> Also, how hard is it to have some users not use a roaming profile but 
> others continuing to use a roaming profile? We have some laptop users 
> that don't need roaming but office staff which do benefit from the use 
> of roaming profiles.
Very easy.  There are two approaches.
1. Have no roaming profile by default but instead set it on a per user 
basis.  Note that I haven't tried this, but I'm seriously considering
it.
2. Once the user logs in, you can hit My Computer -> properties, then 
under the advanced tab, select the profiles and then hit settings.  You 
can change to a local profile here.

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