I'm currently test WinXP and Win2K against Samba 2.2.6. While I've got profiles working, I havn't as yet got the workstation to retrieve default profiles from the server. Is this possible under Samba, and if so how. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Regards Benjamin Hutton Systems Administrator Bunbury Catholic College
I assume that you are meaning default profiles for users who have never logged on before??? If so, I believe that default profiles are set up on each client (although I could be wrong). In the Documents and Settings folder (usually C:\Documents and Settings), there should be a folder labelled as Default User. This is used as the default profile for users who have never logged on before. And if you are playing around with registry settings, I'm pretty sure it's HKEY_USERS\.Default that's used for new profiles. Hope this helps Glen Gibb On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Benjamin Hutton wrote:> I'm currently test WinXP and Win2K against Samba 2.2.6. While I've got > profiles working, I havn't as yet got the workstation to retrieve default > profiles from the server. > > Is this possible under Samba, and if so how. Any help will be greatly > appreciated. > > Regards Benjamin Hutton > Systems Administrator > Bunbury Catholic College > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
>You are correct in saying that the new default profile is set >up on each >client as it logs in first time. >The important thing to remember for this is that it is done LOCALLY on >the users workstation, not on the server. So, any changes that you make >to the C:\Documents and Settings\Default User folder or the >HKU\.DefaultWould it be possible to have a default profile copied to the users profile dir on the samba box when you create a new user. That way the workstation would download the server profile because it already exists, rather than using the local Default User copy. ie: log on with a test user, set up all the settings the way u want them, then log off, and use the resulting profile on the samba server as your initial copy to dump in the new user's profile dir We run roaming profiles and have the Default User profile set up on each workstation (W2K) as a result of having a standard image for all our PCs. I haven't got around to trying my suggestion above, so I'm unsure if it would work or not, but if anyone else has tried it I'd be interested to know.
>You might however find that there are a few problems with >things such as >NT SID's stored in the profile needing to be updated for the new user >(such as those stored in NTUSER.DAT). I'm not an expert so >this might not >be correct.Shouldn't be a problem if you follow the same procedure as making a local default user. Go into the User Profiles & copy the profile to a directory somewhere on your server then use this to copy to a user profile everytime you create a new user. (You'd have to do it this way to get around the SID problem which you'll have if you just copy the profile directory on its own rather than using the User Profiles copy mechanism.)