Hi all, I've managed to install an ubuntu server as PDC, everything is working fine. However, i've got a few questions regarding profile ( M$ XP ) and unix accounts. 1. Roaming profile : I believed that when logging off a computer, user's profile was moved back to the server. But i can still find one. Is there anything to do for the profile not to be stored on pc ? 2. An account must be created for the PC to be added to the domain. ( COMPUTER$ ) Assuming we have 100 of them, what's the best way to create them automatically ? Thanks in advance. Regards, Pierre
On Fri, 6 May 2005 10:35:54 +0100 "pierrelaurent@neuf.fr" <pierrelaurent@neuf.fr> wrote: p> 1. Roaming profile : I believed that when logging off a computer, user's profile was moved back to the server. But i can still find one. p> Is there anything to do for the profile not to be stored on pc ? You have to activate "DeleteRoamingCache" in HKLM:Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\winlogon You can do this with server policies (NTConfig.pol on Netlogon share) Unfortunately this is often not enough ( particularly if you are using office) You need to install the "User Profile Hive Cleanup Service". Expert from the README file: UPHClean v1.5e readme.txt Updated March 4, 2004 by Robin Caron All feedback appreciated to uphclean@microsoft.com WHAT IS UPHCLEAN UPHClean is a service that once and for all gets rid of problems with user profile not unloading. ................ You can download it from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1b286e6d-8912-4e18-b570-42470e2f3582&displaylang=en p> p> 2. An account must be created for the PC to be added to the domain. ( COMPUTER$ ) p> Assuming we have 100 of them, what's the best way to create them automatically ? p> It depends on how you are deploying them. We are using an imaging system ( Rembo ). All machines are using the same machine password and are not allowed to change it. Adding new machines is just a matter of copying entries of an existing one and modify machine names. If you are using a more conventional way of deploying, you need to create an account with right to add machines to the domain on the samba server ( root on previous samba versions) and modify your install scripts accordingly. p> Thanks in advance. p> Regards, p> Pierre p> -- Jean-Jacques Moulis Tel: (013) 281684 ISY Fax: (013) 139282 Link?ping University E-mail: jj@isy.liu.se 581 83 Link?ping
fre, 06.05.2005 kl. 11.35 skrev pierrelaurent@neuf.fr:> I've managed to install an ubuntu server as PDC, everything is working fine. > However, i've got a few questions regarding profile ( M$ XP ) and unix accounts. > > 1. Roaming profile : I believed that when logging off a computer, user's profile was moved back to the server. But i can still find one. > Is there anything to do for the profile not to be stored on pc ?Yes, use group policy. How, you can find in the Samba docs using NT's poledit utility, or by using the Nitrobit (www.nitrobit.com) tool. I use Nitrobit's. You can keep the profiles on the server and never cache them locally and never synchronize on log off, if you want. You have several different choices. The whole procedure is fairly complicated and since it's documented, I won't repeat it here. With> 2. An account must be created for the PC to be added to the domain. ( COMPUTER$ ) > Assuming we have 100 of them, what's the best way to create them automatically ?It depends on how your Samba setup is configured. Mine's LDAP based. I wrote a shell script that simply reads in a list of machines (there were 75+), writes an ldif for each machine to add a posixAccount/account to LDAP, adds the ldif record and then calls smbpasswd to add the machine to Samba. --Tonni -- Nothing sucksseeds like a pigeon without a beak ... mail: tonye@billy.demon.nl http://www.billy.demon.nl They'll love us, won't they? They feed us, don't they? ...