I'm mulling over the idea of replacing my Win 2k MS AD using Samba. But I'd like to retain roaming profile capability for all my users. Based on your experience is it stable enough to implement for a production environment? I have only 30 using Win 2k Pro and some XP. What are the pit falls I need to look out for? Thank you! Joe
Joe, Given how many MS Windows sites use roaming profiles it is safe to say that it is stable enough. Do you mean is Samba stable enough? Well again, we have a huge number of users, I'd say it is. OK. So if you mean does Samba handle profile in a stable manner? Samba does not handle profiles - the Windows client does. The windows client reads the users' profile from the profile share and writes it back on logout. I have set up hundreds of sites that use roaming profiles with a Samba domain controller - so far none have had any problems. That does not means that problems do not exist, but if they do the users have not noticed them or are too reluctant to report them. I'll leave that to your interpretation. Pitfalls? Well, if you follow Chapter 6 of the Samba-3 By Example book and you have a problem I'll help you to solve it - so far as the problem is capable of being solved. Oh, if you do not want to buy the book - download it for free from http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf Cheers, John T. On Tuesday 09 November 2004 09:05, Joe Aldeguer wrote:> I'm mulling over the idea of replacing my Win 2k MS AD using Samba. But > I'd like to retain roaming profile capability for all my users. Based on > your experience is it stable enough to implement for a production > environment? > I have only 30 using Win 2k Pro and some XP. > > What are the pit falls I need to look out for? > > Thank you! > > Joe-- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production.
Hi Joe, i have samba 3 running for 100 Users with roaming profiles in 3 offices over openvpn and it works like charme. But before you migrate i recommend you to setup a small samba test server and a few clients for testing and playing with it. Also do a deep study of the faqs. Sharing roaming profiles with different win versions is not recommended as it is so on win servers too. Regards Joe Aldeguer schrieb:> I'm mulling over the idea of replacing my Win 2k MS AD using Samba. But > I'd like to retain roaming profile capability for all my users. Based on > your experience is it stable enough to implement for a production > environment? > I have only 30 using Win 2k Pro and some XP. > > What are the pit falls I need to look out for? > > Thank you! > > Joe
It seems I have accidently turned roaming profiles that trigger when XP boxes login to my domain. How can I make sure they are turned off for good? Thanks Barry
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:15:52PM -0500, Barry Roomberg wrote:> It seems I have accidently turned roaming profiles that trigger when XP boxes > login to my domain. How can I make sure they are turned off for good?(From http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ProfileMgmt.html) In smb.conf Affect the following settings and ALL clients will be forced to use a local profile: logon home = and logon path The arguments to these parameters must be left blank. It is necessary to include the = sign to specifically assign the empty value.