On a windows server there is a local profile by default unless you tell it
to have a roaming profile. I want to have the same thing happen. All the
machines say that they used the local copy then a couple seconds later
it says it could not copy to the server and any changes will not be saved.
I know that I could let it be a roaming and switch it to a local later
but in a larger enterprise that is too much work.
I tried this in my smb.conf on debian testing with samba 3.0
logon home = ""
logon path = ""
I used to use this on redhat 8 with samba 2.28a before and it worked.
and logon home = c:\documents and settings\%u
logon path = c:\documents and settings\%u
I saw this on a web site and so I tried it but it did not work.
I bought the book called The official Samba 3 howto and reference guide.
What a great book but it says in there if you want to disable roaming
profiles, there are three ways to do it. Do it in the smb.conf file but
does not show how just says to do it. Then it says to do it in the
windows registry but this is not practical to do to 100 workstations. Or
to leave as roaming and then switch to local which is also not practical
to do to 100 workstations. There should be a way to just make it do
local on the fly as it creates the profile as windows does it. I would
like to know how your smb.conf file should look in order to accomplish
this. Any help would be appreciated.
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 David.Grudek@anixter.com wrote:> On a windows server there is a local profile by default unless you tell it > to have a roaming profile. I want to have the same thing happen. All the > machines say that they used the local copy then a couple seconds later > it says it could not copy to the server and any changes will not be saved. > I know that I could let it be a roaming and switch it to a local later > but in a larger enterprise that is too much work. > > I tried this in my smb.conf on debian testing with samba 3.0 > > logon home = "" > logon path = "" > > I used to use this on redhat 8 with samba 2.28a before and it worked. > > and logon home = c:\documents and settings\%u > logon path = c:\documents and settings\%u > > I saw this on a web site and so I tried it but it did not work. > > I bought the book called The official Samba 3 howto and reference guide. > What a great book but it says in there if you want to disable roaming > profiles, there are three ways to do it. Do it in the smb.conf file but > does not show how just says to do it. Then it says to do it in the > windows registry but this is not practical to do to 100 workstations. Or > to leave as roaming and then switch to local which is also not practical > to do to 100 workstations. There should be a way to just make it do > local on the fly as it creates the profile as windows does it. I would > like to know how your smb.conf file should look in order to accomplish > this. Any help would be appreciated. >logon home logon path These two entries will cancel the default settings and enforce local profiles. If you are using Samba-3.0.x and you have a tdbsam backend, and it has a profile path set, then this setting will be used. In this case you have to use either pdbedit to remove the setting, or use the SRVTOOLS User Manager for Domains to change the setting to a blank. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org
I've had success with logon home logon path but if your using LDAP it will override these settings so you need to set those fields blank in you LDAP user as well. -=Carl=- <David.Grudek@anixter.com> wrote in message news:OF67DA9038.24720F61-ON86256DDB.0051E67C-86256DDB.0058C3DF@anixter.com...> On a windows server there is a local profile by default unless you tell it > to have a roaming profile. I want to have the same thing happen. All the > machines say that they used the local copy then a couple seconds later > it says it could not copy to the server and any changes will not be saved. > I know that I could let it be a roaming and switch it to a local later > but in a larger enterprise that is too much work. > > I tried this in my smb.conf on debian testing with samba 3.0 > > logon home = "" > logon path = "" > > I used to use this on redhat 8 with samba 2.28a before and it worked. > > and logon home = c:\documents and settings\%u > logon path = c:\documents and settings\%u > > I saw this on a web site and so I tried it but it did not work. > > I bought the book called The official Samba 3 howto and reference guide. > What a great book but it says in there if you want to disable roaming > profiles, there are three ways to do it. Do it in the smb.conf file but > does not show how just says to do it. Then it says to do it in the > windows registry but this is not practical to do to 100 workstations. Or > to leave as roaming and then switch to local which is also not practical > to do to 100 workstations. There should be a way to just make it do > local on the fly as it creates the profile as windows does it. I would > like to know how your smb.conf file should look in order to accomplish > this. Any help would be appreciated. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >