Richard Green
2004-Dec-09 00:32 UTC
[Samba] Folder Redirection, Roaming Profiles and Working Offline
Hi,
I have been trying to use samba for a while as a way to have an
identical desktop/startmenu/profile/favourites/etc on multiple PCs.
Samba is setup as the PDC and I can join the domain and login.
The problems started firstly when I wanted to have some sort of caching
and also logon concurrently to different pcs with the same user. The
main problem being that whichever computer I log off last gets all the
changes saved and the first to log off looses all its changes. So I
decided to read into Folder Redirection and followed the article at
http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/realmen/det/skel.en.html I changed the
registry keys to make as may files possible redirected to a server share
leaving just the profile on the profile share (by the way I am running
windows XP on both workstations) Now when I try and logon having moved
the rest of my profile to a mapped home drive I get the following error:
Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the
default profile for the system.
DETAIL - Incorrect function.
Click on OK and it loads my profile from the server, no error in the
samba log files or anything, Is there an obvious cure?
The next problem is that because its all accessing the profile directly
from the server I keep getting helpful windows baloons telling me
"Delayed Write Fail" and that my mail file or whatever has been lost.
One of my two computers is a laptop and is obviously used away from my
network so I use working offline- well attempt to, When it manages to
lock the files and doesn't decide to go offline because it can't
syncronise. Again is there anything that i'm doing wrong?
Lastly is this the best approach to take or does anyone have any other
suggestions? I have a debian server running samba and two winXP
computers; one laptop and one desktop. I basically want to keep the
computers with the same desktop/information/bookmarks etc on them and
also have the laptop working away from the home server.
I have enclosed my smb.conf file at the bottom of this message. Thankyou
for all your help and sorry about asking all these questions but I have
been attempting and failing to get a working solution for several months :(
PS I am running Version 3.0.8-Debian Samba
Thanks!
Richard
smb.conf:
# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = HOMENET
netbios name = XEBIAN
map to guest = Bad User
passdb backend = tdbsam, guest
pam password change = Yes
unix password sync = Yes
name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
time server = Yes
add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u
delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u
add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g
delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g
add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G %g %u
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d
/dev/null %u
logon script = %ULogon.bat
logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
logon drive = H:
logon home = \\%L\%U
domain logons = Yes
os level = 35
preferred master = Yes
domain master = Yes
wins proxy = Yes
wins support = Yes
idmap uid = 15000-20000
idmap gid = 15000-20000
admin users = richard, @ntadmins
hosts allow = 10.0.0., EXCEPT 10.0.0.1, 127.
map acl inherit = Yes
Log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
log level = 2
hide files = /desktop.ini/ntuser.ini/NTUSER.*/
server string = %h server (Samba %v)
[netlogon]
path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
write list = @ntadmins, ntadmin
[Profiles]
path = /var/lib/samba/profiles
valid users = %U
force user = %U
read only = No
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
guest ok = Yes
profile acls = Yes
browseable = No
csc policy = disable
root preexec = PROFILE=/var/lib/samba/profiles/%U; if [ ! -e
$PROFILE ]; then mkdir -pm700 $PROFILE; chown %u:%g $PROFILE;fi
[homes]
path = /home/%U/windows
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S
read only = No
force create mode = 0600
force directory mode = 0700
veto files =
/Maildir/.bash_history/.bash*/.ssh/.spamassassin/.procmail$
hide files =
/Maildir/.*/desktop.ini/ntuser.ini/NTUSER.*/hpothb07.dat/Thumbs.db
browseable = No
dos filetimes = Yes
root preexec = WinHome=/home/%u/windows; if [ ! -e $WinHome ];
then mkdir -pm700 $WinHome; chown %u:%g $WinHome;fi
[media]
comment = music and video files
path = /home/samba/media
dos filetimes = Yes
write list = @ntadmins, ntadmin
[docs]
comment = linux documents folder
path = /usr/share/doc
dos filetimes = Yes
read only = Yes
[pub]
comment = Public directory
path = /home/samba/pub
read only = No
create mask = 0777
guest ok = Yes
dos filetimes = Yes
[programs]
comment = Programs
path = /home/samba/programs
write list = @ntadmins
guest ok = Yes
dos filetimes = Yes
[Win2k]
comment = Windows 2000 Custom Installation Directory
path = /home/samba/win2kinstall
write list = @ntadmins
guest ok = Yes
dos filetimes = Yes
[WinXP]
comment = Windows XP Setup Source
path = /home/samba/winxpinstall
write list = @ntadmins
guest ok = Yes
dos filetimes = Yes
[files]
comment = Shared Files
path = /home/samba/files
read only = No
dos filetimes = yes
valid users = @ntadmins
richard@atomic-x.co.uk
2004-Dec-09 01:24 UTC
[Samba] Folder Redirection, Roaming Profiles and Working Offline
Hi,
I have been trying to use samba for a while as a way to have an
identical desktop/startmenu/profile/favourites/etc on multiple PCs. Samba
is setup as the PDC and I can join the domain and login.
The problems started firstly when I wanted to have some sort of caching
and also logon concurrently to different pcs with the same user. The main
problem being that whichever computer I log off last gets all the changes
saved and the first to log off looses all its changes. So I decided to
read into Folder Redirection and followed the article at
http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/realmen/det/skel.en.html I changed the
registry keys to make as may files possible redirected to a server share
leaving just the profile on the profile share (by the way I am running
windows XP on both workstations) Now when I try and logon having moved
the rest of my profile to a mapped home drive I get the following error:
Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the
default profile for the system.
DETAIL - Incorrect function.
Click on OK and it loads my profile from the server, no error in the
samba log files or anything, Is there an obvious cure?
The next problem is that because its all accessing the profile directly
from the server I keep getting helpful windows baloons telling me
"Delayed Write Fail" and that my mail file or whatever has been lost.
One of my two computers is a laptop and is obviously used away from my
network so I use working offline- well attempt to, When it manages to
lock the files and doesn't decide to go offline because it can't
syncronise. Again is there anything that i'm doing wrong?
Lastly is this the best approach to take or does anyone have any other
suggestions? I have a debian server running samba and two winXP
computers; one laptop and one desktop. I basically want to keep the
computers with the same desktop/information/bookmarks etc on them and
also have the laptop working away from the home server.
I have enclosed my smb.conf file at the bottom of this message. Thankyou
for all your help and sorry about asking all these questions but I have
been attempting and failing to get a working solution for several months
:(
PS I am running Version 3.0.8-Debian Samba
Thanks!
Richard
smb.conf:
# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = HOMENET
netbios name = XEBIAN
map to guest = Bad User
passdb backend = tdbsam, guest
pam password change = Yes
unix password sync = Yes
name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
time server = Yes
add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u
delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u
add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g
delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g
add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G %g %u
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d
/dev/null %u
logon script = %ULogon.bat
logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
logon drive = H:
logon home = \\%L\%U
domain logons = Yes
os level = 35
preferred master = Yes
domain master = Yes
wins proxy = Yes
wins support = Yes
idmap uid = 15000-20000
idmap gid = 15000-20000
admin users = richard, @ntadmins
hosts allow = 10.0.0., EXCEPT 10.0.0.1, 127.
map acl inherit = Yes
Log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
log level = 2
hide files = /desktop.ini/ntuser.ini/NTUSER.*/
server string = %h server (Samba %v)
[netlogon]
path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
write list = @ntadmins, ntadmin
[Profiles]
path = /var/lib/samba/profiles
valid users = %U
force user = %U
read only = No
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
guest ok = Yes
profile acls = Yes
browseable = No
csc policy = disable
root preexec = PROFILE=/var/lib/samba/profiles/%U; if [ ! -e
$PROFILE ]; then mkdir -pm700 $PROFILE; chown %u:%g $PROFILE;fi
[homes]
path = /home/%U/windows
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S
read only = No
force create mode = 0600
force directory mode = 0700
veto files /Maildir/.bash_history/.bash*/.ssh/.spamassassin/.procmail$
hide files
/Maildir/.*/desktop.ini/ntuser.ini/NTUSER.*/hpothb07.dat/Thumbs.db
browseable = No
dos filetimes = Yes
root preexec = WinHome=/home/%u/windows; if [ ! -e $WinHome ];
then mkdir -pm700 $WinHome; chown %u:%g $WinHome;fi
[media]
comment = music and video files
path = /home/samba/media
dos filetimes = Yes
write list = @ntadmins, ntadmin
[docs]
comment = linux documents folder
path = /usr/share/doc
dos filetimes = Yes
read only = Yes
[pub]
comment = Public directory
path = /home/samba/pub
read only = No
create mask = 0777
guest ok = Yes
dos filetimes = Yes
[programs]
comment = Programs
path = /home/samba/programs
write list = @ntadmins
guest ok = Yes
dos filetimes = Yes
[Win2k]
comment = Windows 2000 Custom Installation Directory
path = /home/samba/win2kinstall
write list = @ntadmins
guest ok = Yes
dos filetimes = Yes
[WinXP]
comment = Windows XP Setup Source
path = /home/samba/winxpinstall
write list = @ntadmins
guest ok = Yes
dos filetimes = Yes
[files]
comment = Shared Files
path = /home/samba/files
read only = No
dos filetimes = yes
valid users = @ntadmins