I made a previous posting a few days ago about a problem I was having with certain things not following me around in a roaming profile. I have upgraded to 2.2.4, and have resolved a number of issues I was having, but one remains and it's driving me crazy. I am using Windows XP Pro clients with 2.2.4 on a RH 7.2 box. Roaming profiles work correctly. However, I have noticed that Samba seems to handle the "desktop.ini" file incorrectly. On startup using my roaming profile, notepad pops up with the contents of one desktop.ini file. Various other ones are scattered throughout my start menu. My desktop wallpaper follows me, but doesn't set. Obviously this is related to the desktop.ini problem since some sort of OLE functions are embedded in that file in order to customize Explorer's behavior. I read somewhere that various attributes had to be set on the desktop.ini files, like system and hidden. i've tried mapping system and hidden attributes in my [profiles] share, to no avail. Someone mentioned read-only as well because this is how Windows determines desktop.ini is a "special" file, yet it needs to write to it? Huh? :) Anyway, I'm nutso now over this. I really would like to get this resolved somehow, or at least (for my own benefit) understand more about the problem. If anyone has *any* information, *please* contact me as soon as you can. Thanks, Gary _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
Gary wrote:> > I am using Windows XP Pro clients with 2.2.4 on a RH 7.2 box. Roaming > profiles work correctly. However, I have noticed that Samba seems to handle > the "desktop.ini" file incorrectly. On startup using my roaming profile, > notepad pops up with the contents of one desktop.ini file.That would be caused by desktop.ini appearing in the Startup menu.> Various other ones are scattered throughout my start menu.Yep, I've noticed this too! And IIRC, sometimes a desktop.ini will appear from nowhere in a folder. And I do remember this one: a desktop.ini can appear on the taskbar. Very annoying. I don't know if this applies to your network there, but I've found it helpful to keep the roaming profiles of the different Windows versions separated in different directories, so a Win XP client won't ever get a profile from a Win2000 client, for example. I don't know if this helps with the desktop.ini problem, but it helped with other things here. A possible workaround might be to add a cron job that looks for the desktop.ini files in the profiles directory, and deletes them. If you run the job every minute, that may be sufficient to keep the files deleted so that if you log out and then back in again (as quickly as you can), the file will get deleted in between. And hey, I haven't tried it, but what about: [profiles] veto files = desktop.ini ? Jay Ts jayts@iname.com
Numerous desktop.ini's are the result of having "Remember Each Folder's View Settings" enabled in My Computer, Tools, View. To reset it in Win9x/Win2k with IE5.x: (WinXP may/may not be the same...don't know). Open My Computer, set the folder view to the way you want it. Then click on Tools, View. Change the View settings to the way you want; Find the "Remember Each Folder's View Settings". Disable it, click on Apply, then click on the Like Current Folder and click on Yes when prompted. Jim