I followed the thread on putting NT roaming profiles on a Samba share over the
last few days. After spending most of the day on trying to get it working
myself,
I thought I would save others a bit of time by mentioning another pitfall.
Apparently samba needs to have password encryption turned on in order for this
to work. I couldn't find this in any of the current samba documentation. I
did,
however, find a mention of it in the docs for NISGINA.
( http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~williams/nisgina-current )
N.B remote profiles won't work at all from samba served home directories
unless the server is running in encrypted mode and at user level security.
Unless I totally missed this in the Samba docs, perhaps it could be added in
the
future. Once I started using encryption, profiles on the Samba share worked
like
a charm.
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