Greetings. I've read through Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf and the Windows Word doc (Profiles_and_Policies.doc) it referenced on setting up roaming profiles. Profiles work but there are issues (see my earlier post: "profile problems in 2.2.0") that the Samba team are aware of, issues that render roaming profiles pretty useless. So I grabbed the CVS source and it behaves as the 2.2.0 release (again, see the earlier post). What I would like to do is implement forced profiles, ie, force win2k clients to use the profiles that are on the samba PDC as opposed to allowing the win2k clients to create and use local profiles. I know this can be done in NT4 (the word doc speaks about it) but we're using samba here, not NT4. ;-) Can samba do this sort of thing and if so, how? Thanks, kw -- | Keith Warno | http://www.valaran.com/ cell: +1 609-209-5800 | Valaran Corporation Penguin Guy work: +1 609-716-7200 x243 +------------------------------------------------------------//
Keith Warno wrote:> > What I would like to do is implement forced > profiles, ie, force win2k clients to use the profiles > that are on the samba PDC as opposed to allowing the > win2k clients to create and use local profiles. I know > this can be done in NT4 (the word doc speaks about it) > but we're using samba here, not NT4. ;-) Can samba do this > sort of thing and if so, how?Do you mean you do not want the NT client to cache a copy of the roaming profile? I can do this on Win9x, but have never known it to be done on NT. Can you send me a link to your previous posts in the archive so I can review them. Cheers, jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- /\ Gerald (Jerry) Carter Professional Services \/ http://www.valinux.com/ VA Linux Systems gcarter@valinux.com http://www.samba.org/ SAMBA Team jerry@samba.org http://www.plainjoe.org/ jerry@plainjoe.org "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home." - Sting "Message in a Bottle" ( 1979 )
Keith, as far as i know, what you want to do is to rename the profile that is stored on the Samba PDC \\%N\profiles\<naming method> so that instead of NTProfile.dat (i think that is the correct extension) you get NTProfile.man (man for MANdatory). if this is then placed in the profile share (configure this in smb.conf - see "logon path" for more info) the NT clients (w2k is nt based) will then use this. hope this helps alex collins -----Original Message----- From: samba-admin@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin@lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Keith Warno Sent: 09 May 2001 22:21 To: samba list Subject: forced profiles (was: profile problems in 2.2.0) Greetings. I've read through Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf and the Windows Word doc (Profiles_and_Policies.doc) it referenced on setting up roaming profiles. Profiles work but there are issues (see my earlier post: "profile problems in 2.2.0") that the Samba team are aware of, issues that render roaming profiles pretty useless. So I grabbed the CVS source and it behaves as the 2.2.0 release (again, see the earlier post). What I would like to do is implement forced profiles, ie, force win2k clients to use the profiles that are on the samba PDC as opposed to allowing the win2k clients to create and use local profiles. I know this can be done in NT4 (the word doc speaks about it) but we're using samba here, not NT4. ;-) Can samba do this sort of thing and if so, how? Thanks, kw -- | Keith Warno | http://www.valaran.com/ cell: +1 609-209-5800 | Valaran Corporation Penguin Guy work: +1 609-716-7200 x243 +------------------------------------------------------------// -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba