samba - May 2003 - Question on Profiles when users join the Domain

Hello everyone. I will keep this question as brief as possible.

As it is now, our users are all set in a workgroup environment using local 
profiles. I have setup our Samba PDC with LDAP to use roaming profiles.
My question is this:
Users right now use a local profile. How do I make sure that when these 
users and computers join the PDC, their profiles (desktop settings, icons 
etc) will carry over the the PDC for their roaming profiles?

My fear is that my users will loose their desktop settings when they join 
the PDC. How can I avoid this and make sure they retain all their settings 
that are being used on their local profiles.

Thank you everyone.

Jason

On Wed, 28 May 2003, Jason Williams wrote:
> Hello everyone. I will keep this question as brief as possible.
>
> As it is now, our users are all set in a workgroup environment using local
> profiles. I have setup our Samba PDC with LDAP to use roaming profiles.
> My question is this:
> Users right now use a local profile. How do I make sure that when these
> users and computers join the PDC, their profiles (desktop settings, icons
> etc) will carry over the the PDC for their roaming profiles?
>
> My fear is that my users will loose their desktop settings when they join
> the PDC. How can I avoid this and make sure they retain all their settings
> that are being used on their local profiles.
As administrator on their local workstation you need to copy (migrate
using the system tools on the workstation) the profile to a domain user
profile and in the process copy it to the central domain profile server
share.

This is documented in the new Samba-HOWTO.

http://samba.org/~jht/NT4migration/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf

See chapter 22, section 22.2.4


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