samba - Mar 2002 - How to switch of the users profile copying ?

Hi all !

I'm using Samba 2.2.3a on a Redhat Linux 7.2 as a Primary Domain Controller
!

My users are mostly use win2000 and the profile directory can be really
large after some month, so in this case I need a lot of Extra storage to
store them on the PDC !

We don't need this feature basically, so is it possible somehow to switch
of this feature ?

Best Regards !

Viktor Posta

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:40:16AM +0100, Viktor Posta wrote:
> 
> My users are mostly use win2000 and the profile directory can be really
> large after some month, so in this case I need a lot of Extra storage to
> store them on the PDC !
>
you can exclude certain parts from the users profile using a
systempolicy. For example we exclude the temporary internetfiles and
the outlook-folders that contain imap-caches. (both completely
uncritical data)

Additionally we dont store the users workfiles in the profile but on a
servershare (which reduced the profilesize and makes updating faster,
but does not reduce space needed on the server)
> 
> We don't need this feature basically, so is it possible somehow to
switch
> of this feature ?
> 
you can use local accounts instead of domainaccounts then, but be
aware, that this data will not be included in the serverbackup then
and the users cannot roam easily between different clients ...

or - the other way round : why do you need serverside profiles ?


best
peter

"Viktor Posta" <viktor_posta@hu.ibm.com> wrote on 14.03.2002
10:40:16:
>...
>My users are mostly use win2000 and the profile directory can be really
>large after some month, so in this case I need a lot of Extra storage to
>store them on the PDC !
>
>We don't need this feature basically, so is it possible somehow to
switch
>of this feature ?
>...
Hi Viktor,

you can turn this off in w2k in "Control Panel\System\User profiles"
by
making the profile a local one. 

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