Alexander Lazarevich
2001-Dec-06 12:11 UTC
windows desktop redirection -> samba has problems
here's our setup: 1) Windows NT4.0 server/PDC 2) Multiple Windows NT4.0 (SP 6) and Windows 2000 (SP 2) 3) AIX 4.3 file server running samba (1.9) currently we are trying to make a change in all users windows profiles. we are trying to switch from roaming to local. thats easy engouh, but we also want to redirect the windows desktop and my docs folder to our network file server (samba) so that the desktop and my documents will, in effect, roam to other comuters. heres our problem: a user, on a windows platform, creates a document in word, or any other windows app, and saves it to the desktop (i.e., the redirected desktop, which is actually the home directory of that user on the network filesever running samba). the file is saved and you can see it on the unix side, but the new file will not show up on the actual windows desktop unless the user logs-out/logs-in, or the user craetes another file, and then removes it. a right-click/refresh of the desktop does not work. this is not good, because we cant tell users they need to logout/login just to see things on there desktop. i think the problem is in samba. because if i redirect the desktop to a share on the windows server, the updates work just fine. has anyone else delt with this problem before? anyone got any ideas? i hesitate to upgrade samba because we tried that before and it didnt work, and im not sure its gonna fix the current problem. thanks in advance, alex --- --- Alex Lazarevich | Systems | Imaging Technology Group alazarev@itg.uiuc.edu | (217)244-1565 | www.itg.uiuc.edu --- ---
Alexander Lazarevich wrote:> > here's our setup: > > 1) Windows NT4.0 server/PDC > 2) Multiple Windows NT4.0 (SP 6) and Windows 2000 (SP 2) > 3) AIX 4.3 file server running samba (1.9) > > currently we are trying to make a change in all users windows profiles. we > are trying to switch from roaming to local. thats easy engouh, but we also > want to redirect the windows desktop and my docs folder to our network > file server (samba) so that the desktop and my documents will, in effect, > roam to other comuters. > > heres our problem: > > a user, on a windows platform, creates a document in word, or any other > windows app, and saves it to the desktop (i.e., the redirected desktop, > which is actually the home directory of that user on the network filesever > running samba). the file is saved and you can see it on the unix side, but > the new file will not show up on the actual windows desktop unless the > user logs-out/logs-in, or the user craetes another file, and then removes > it. a right-click/refresh of the desktop does not work. > > this is not good, because we cant tell users they need to logout/login > just to see things on there desktop. > > i think the problem is in samba. because if i redirect the desktop to a > share on the windows server, the updates work just fine. has anyone else > delt with this problem before? anyone got any ideas? i hesitate to upgrade > samba because we tried that before and it didnt work, and im not sure its > gonna fix the current problem.I've done this with Roaming profiles - the redirection was by use of a System Policy. However I have only ever done it on Samba versions this side of 2.0, but it has always worked fine - except when the server 'goes away' :-). I really would recommend upgrading, becouse you will have to at some stage, and Samba will be changing more, not less - jumping from 1.9 to 3.0 will be a *really* big pain. Other than that, I would not be supprised to learn that directory notification was only implemented reltivlty recently, and this is almost certainly what you need here. 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
This works great for us - Samba 2.2.2 RH6.2 with Win2000 SP2 clients. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Bartlett [mailto:abartlet@pcug.org.au] Sent: 06 December 2001 21:00 To: Alexander Lazarevich Cc: Samba Mailing List Subject: Re: windows desktop redirection -> samba has problems Alexander Lazarevich wrote:> > here's our setup: > > 1) Windows NT4.0 server/PDC > 2) Multiple Windows NT4.0 (SP 6) and Windows 2000 (SP 2) > 3) AIX 4.3 file server running samba (1.9) > > currently we are trying to make a change in all users windows profiles. we > are trying to switch from roaming to local. thats easy engouh, but we also > want to redirect the windows desktop and my docs folder to our network > file server (samba) so that the desktop and my documents will, in effect, > roam to other comuters. > > heres our problem: > > a user, on a windows platform, creates a document in word, or any other > windows app, and saves it to the desktop (i.e., the redirected desktop, > which is actually the home directory of that user on the network filesever > running samba). the file is saved and you can see it on the unix side, but > the new file will not show up on the actual windows desktop unless the > user logs-out/logs-in, or the user craetes another file, and then removes > it. a right-click/refresh of the desktop does not work. > > this is not good, because we cant tell users they need to logout/login > just to see things on there desktop. > > i think the problem is in samba. because if i redirect the desktop to a > share on the windows server, the updates work just fine. has anyone else > delt with this problem before? anyone got any ideas? i hesitate to upgrade > samba because we tried that before and it didnt work, and im not sure its > gonna fix the current problem.I've done this with Roaming profiles - the redirection was by use of a System Policy. However I have only ever done it on Samba versions this side of 2.0, but it has always worked fine - except when the server 'goes away' :-). I really would recommend upgrading, becouse you will have to at some stage, and Samba will be changing more, not less - jumping from 1.9 to 3.0 will be a *really* big pain. Other than that, I would not be supprised to learn that directory notification was only implemented reltivlty recently, and this is almost certainly what you need here. 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba