[Samba] Roaming Profiles + Win2000 + XP

Glen Gibb
Wed, 06 Nov 2002 22:40:01 -0000

I don't guarantee it will work, but try adding the following line to your
profiles share:

csc policy = disable

It disables client side caching on a share - so this might help the XP
problem.

Glen Gibb
Ridley College

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, James wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Ive got my PDC up and running under samba, it is serving several windows
> 2000 machines and a windows XP machine.
>
> The problem is when using Roaming Profiles.......
>
> Were using Outlook XP + IMAP Mail for the users emails, which works
fine....
> the only problem comes when logging off the machine and back to another.
The
> windows 2000 machines seem to update the profile changes back to the
server.
> The windows XP machines update NEW files (eg on the desktop if i make a new
> text document) but not remove files which should be deleted, or update
edits
> to files. (eg if i delete a file off the desktop of the profile when on the
> XP machine, it wont be deleted from the server when I log off, and i do
mean
> files, not shortcuts).
>
> I assume this must be some sort of caching problem with XP, or maybe its
> something I can manage from my smb.conf, totally lost at the moment :(
>
> I also cannot get the U: drive to be automounted to the users home
> directory....... although I had that working at one point (as i said,
> totally lost at the moment)
>
> Any suggestions on the problem + my smb.conf (below) would be much
> appreciated.
>
> -James
>
> # Global parameters
> [global]
> 	workgroup = BENCE
> 	netbios name = FAIRVIEW
> 	server string = BENCE PDC
> 	encrypt passwords = Yes
> 	update encrypted = Yes
> 	log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> 	max log size = 0
> 	time server = Yes
> 	socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> 	domain admin group = root
> 	logon script = /etc/samba/login.%.bat
> 	logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
> 	logon drive = u:
> 	logon home = \\%L\%U
> 	domain logons = Yes
> 	os level = 255
> 	preferred master = True
> 	domain master = True
> 	dns proxy = No
>
> [homes]
> 	comment = Home Directories
> 	path = /users/%U/smbhome
> 	guest account > 	valid users = %S
> 	read only = No
> 	browseable = No
>
> [netlogon]
> 	comment = Logon scripts and policies
> 	path = /samba/netlogon
> 	create mask = 0644
>
> [profiles]
> 	comment = Roaming profiles directory
> 	path = /samba/profiles
> 	read only = No
> 	create mask = 0600
> 	directory mask = 0700
> 	share modes = No
>
>
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