Hello everyone. Well, I have a couple of questions regarding roaming profiles. I have been assigned the task of setting up a Samba PDC on our network. Lately, I have been doing a lot of research and reading to find out the best way I setup my system. I have a couple of questions I wanted to ask here, in hopes of getting some feedback. First, some details: The server will be Red Hat 8.0 with Samba 2.2.7. All of our clients on our intranet are running Windows 2000. Now, I have considered implementing Roaming Profiles (upper management likes the idea). Let me start asking some questions: 1) Right now, our network is a workgroup. All of our users have their own computers with their personal desktop settings. (Icons, favorites, etc.) What I was curious is, if I update one of our clients computers and add them to the Domain/PDC, will their current local profile, which contains their desktop settings, be copied over to the PDC? If not, is there a way to make sure that when I do add a machine and user to the domain, their settings will be copied to the PDC? Thus, if they log onto a different machine, they will retain their desktop settings? That is about it actually. If I think of more, I will repost. I appreciate everyones help and input. Best, Jason
On Thu, 1 May 2003, Jason Williams wrote: The information you need is in the new Samba-HOWTO-Collection. This document is a work in progress and will be completed before Samba-3.0.0 ships. You may take a peek and pre-view the document from: http://samba.org/~jht/NT4migration/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf You should in particular read the chapters on Policies and on Profiles. PS: We could really do with your feedback. - What was good info for you? - What is missing/confusing/incomplete, etc.? Enjoy! Cheers, John T.> Hello everyone. > > Well, I have a couple of questions regarding roaming profiles. I have been > assigned the task of setting up a Samba PDC on our network. Lately, I have > been doing a lot of research and reading to find out the best way I setup > my system. I have a couple of questions I wanted to ask here, in hopes of > getting some feedback. > > First, some details: > > The server will be Red Hat 8.0 with Samba 2.2.7. All of our clients on our > intranet are running Windows 2000. > > Now, I have considered implementing Roaming Profiles (upper management > likes the idea). Let me start asking some questions: > > 1) Right now, our network is a workgroup. All of our users have their own > computers with their personal desktop settings. (Icons, favorites, etc.) > What I was curious is, if I update one of our clients computers and add > them to the Domain/PDC, will their current local profile, which contains > their desktop settings, be copied over to the PDC? If not, is there a way > to make sure that when I do add a machine and user to the domain, their > settings will be copied to the PDC? Thus, if they log onto a different > machine, they will retain their desktop settings? > > That is about it actually. If I think of more, I will repost. > > I appreciate everyones help and input. > > Best, > > Jason > >-- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org
If I may ask a couple more questions here. So far, I'm not having any luck with getting Roaming Profiles to work correctly. What I have done is added two machines to the Domain and into the PDC. One of the machines had a test account that I was using, which I purposely populated the desktop with icons, folders and documents. I then added this particular computer to the domain successfully. I rebooted the computer and then proceeded to log in. What I noticed is that only part of the stuff that was on my desktop from the local profile, showed up in the new, 'Roaming Profile.' I then proceeded to try and log in with the same test account on a different machine, in hopes of seeing if my profile was saved the to PDC, then uploaded to the second machine. No luck here either. Obivously, I am missing something. :) I have read through the documentation provided as well as the Oreilly USING SAMBA book, 2nd edition. Any ideas on where I can look? Thanks everyone. Jason At 05:28 PM 5/1/2003 +0000, you wrote:>On Thu, 1 May 2003, Jason Williams wrote: > >The information you need is in the new Samba-HOWTO-Collection. This >document is a work in progress and will be completed before Samba-3.0.0 >ships. > >You may take a peek and pre-view the document from: > > http://samba.org/~jht/NT4migration/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf > >You should in particular read the chapters on Policies and on Profiles. > >PS: We could really do with your feedback. > - What was good info for you? > - What is missing/confusing/incomplete, etc.? > >Enjoy! > >Cheers, >John T. > > > Hello everyone. > > > > Well, I have a couple of questions regarding roaming profiles. I have been > > assigned the task of setting up a Samba PDC on our network. Lately, I have > > been doing a lot of research and reading to find out the best way I setup > > my system. I have a couple of questions I wanted to ask here, in hopes of > > getting some feedback. > > > > First, some details: > > > > The server will be Red Hat 8.0 with Samba 2.2.7. All of our clients on our > > intranet are running Windows 2000. > > > > Now, I have considered implementing Roaming Profiles (upper management > > likes the idea). Let me start asking some questions: > > > > 1) Right now, our network is a workgroup. All of our users have their own > > computers with their personal desktop settings. (Icons, favorites, etc.) > > What I was curious is, if I update one of our clients computers and add > > them to the Domain/PDC, will their current local profile, which contains > > their desktop settings, be copied over to the PDC? If not, is there a way > > to make sure that when I do add a machine and user to the domain, their > > settings will be copied to the PDC? Thus, if they log onto a different > > machine, they will retain their desktop settings? > > > > That is about it actually. If I think of more, I will repost. > > > > I appreciate everyones help and input. > > > > Best, > > > > Jason > > > > > >-- >John H Terpstra >Email: jht@samba.org