[Samba] Roaming Profiles + Win2000 + XP

James
Wed, 06 Nov 2002 08:51:07 -0000

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