samba - Mar 1999 - migration win95 -> win98

Hi everybody, 

we are currently running a small network with a samba server and a few
Windows _95_ workstations. The server stores roaming profiles for all
users and provides authentification (logon scripts, policy file, ...)

Now, we are planning to add a Windows _98_ workstation.

Q1: Will Win95 and Win98 be able to work with the same user profiles,
policy file etc?
If not, what can I do?

Q2: In general, are there any problems using samba with Win98
(compared to Win95 which works fine)?

Thanks in advance for any advice,
Andreas


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Redmond, Washington

Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation, announced 
today that the latest version of their Windows operating system,
Windows 2000, would be delayed until the second quarter of 1901. No
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hi,

in general i would like to extend the question (or maybe ask it in
another corner) - can we use profiles in mixed systems? can we have on a
network w95 and w98?

I have tried it with no success, as in my configuration, it seems w98
overwrites profile of w95, not recognizing it, and pretending it is the
first logon of the user. the same is with w98.

if this must be that way, is here any way to set different logon paths
for different OS'es?


rimantas

Hi Rimantas, 

well this answers part of my question - mixing win98 and win95
profiles makes a mess.

Setting different logon paths would easily be possible if the
parameter %a (see man smb.conf) would recognize win95 and win98 as
different architectures. I cannot test this yet, but the docs give no
hint that samba recognizes the difference.

i.e.
logon path = \\%N\%a\pro\%U
gives \\servername\Win95\pro\username with win95 clients - win98?

If %a does not differentiate between win95 and win98, i?ll try with
the hostname parameter (possible since we have (up to now) only one
win98 box).


regards,
Andreas






Rimantas ?ylius wrote:

hi, 

in general i would like to extend the question (or maybe ask it in 
another corner) - can we use profiles in mixed systems? can we have on
a 
network w95 and w98? 

I have tried it with no success, as in my configuration, it seems w98 
overwrites profile of w95, not recognizing it, and pretending it is
the 
first logon of the user. the same is with w98. 

if this must be that way, is here any way to set different logon paths 
for different OS'es? 

rimantas 

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Andreas K. Huettel          Andreas.Huettel@Extern.LRZ-Muenchen.DE
81627 Muenchen              huettel@qubit.org
Germany                     http://www.lrz.de/~huettel/
---------------------------------------------------------------------  

====================================================================News Release
January 4, 1999

Redmond, Washington

Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation, announced 
today that the latest version of their Windows operating system,
Windows 2000, would be delayed until the second quarter of 1901. No
reason was given.

;-)
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