Hi, I have large size Roaming profiles in Win2k and Samba. Samba 2.2.2 is acting as a PDC. Does Win2k load all the files from scratch from the samba server everytime a user log in? Or does Win2k or Samba provides some sort of diff mecanism, so that only modified files are loaded from the Samba server(to speed think up)? Thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. oliver@samera.com.py Asuncion-Paraguay
I don't know about Windows 2000, but as I recall NT4 would compare the date on the locally-cached copy (assuming that user had logged in on that workstation before) against the date on the server, and if the server copy was newer it would copy the whole thing down. At logout it would copy the whole thing up to the server. In the dark days when I was an NT Server admin I found that large roaming profiles would often become corrupted and cause strange problems, we "encouraged" users to save everything in their home directories instead of on the desktop or any of the other locations that would be saved with their profiles. On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:31:34AM -0300, Oliver Schulze L. wrote:> Hi, > I have large size Roaming profiles in Win2k and Samba. > Samba 2.2.2 is acting as a PDC. > > Does Win2k load all the files from scratch from the samba server > everytime a user log in? > Or does Win2k or Samba provides some sort of diff mecanism, so > that only modified files are loaded from the Samba server(to speed think > up)?-- That feeling just came over me. -- Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler"
Hi, as far as I know it makes no differance what server you are using. A windows client will always download the WHOLE profile while logging on and likewise copy to WHOLE profile back to the server. This isn't anything that could be controled within Samba. The best thing to besides not use Win2k and roaming profiles is to: a) MOVE the user's "Computer - personal files" setting to a fixed place outside of the user's Profile. b) MOVE the user's "Temperary Internet Files" to a place outside of the Profile. this should account for 95% of the junk that gets copied back and forth every time the user logs on and off. Again, I believe that any M$ Client will always copy the WHOLE Profile without checking timestamps between the two copies. my regards, Stefan>Hi, >I have large size Roaming profiles in Win2k and Samba. >Samba 2.2.2 is acting as a PDC. > >Does Win2k load all the files from scratch from the samba server >everytime a user log in? >Or does Win2k or Samba provides some sort of diff mecanism, so >that only modified files are loaded from the Samba server(to speed think >up)? > >Thanks >Oliver >Oliver Schulze L. >oliver@samera.com.py >Asuncion-Paraguay
with Win NT 4.0 you can use system policy to make the system not to copy some directory (ex: Internet Temporary Files). you can make the policy with Win NT 4.0 server's poledit, save it with as 'ntconfig.pol' and put it in your 'netlogon' directory ...