Pierre Lebrun
2004-Dec-23 09:05 UTC
[Samba] with samba local profiles overwritten even if newer
I experience pb with roaming profiles when laptops are used offline. When connected to the network everything works fine. Here under is the problem description. All the users of my company use laptops. They often work offline. Desktop components (My Documents files, Desktop files or folders, ...) are sometimes deleted by the user while working in offline mode that means, not connected to any network. The problem is that when the user comes back to the office and logs on to the domain, all deleted objects in offline mode are retrieved from the roaming profile saved on the samba server. In other words, when the user logs on to the office network, the workstation XP (or 2K) is not able to check if the server roaming profile is older than the local profile. When joined to a samba domain are XP and 2000 not able to tell "Local profile is newer than roaming profile, wich one do you want to load ?" The same workstation joined to a 2000 domain controler makes the check and local profile if newer is not overwritten. What I want is when the user comes back to the office, if the local profile is newer than the server profile, then the local profile must be used. Is it possible to make that work with samba ? I google newsgroups, the web and MS docs for a long time with no success. Can you help me please ? Many thanks for your help. Pierre Same problem with 2.2.8a and 3.0.9 on solaris 8 or 2.5.1 profile share config [profiles] comment = Profils utilisateurs path = /smb/profiles read only = No create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 profile acls = Yes browseable = Yes csc policy = disable