samba - Jul 2005 - profiles reverting from local to roaming

Hello,

I have a shiny new RHES4 box running Samba 3.0.10-1.4E (as included in the Red
Hat distribution) which is set up as a domain controller, using openLDAP and the
IdealX scripts. User PCs are Windows 2000 and XP.

We would like to avoid roaming profiles altogether, so we set "logon path
=" and "logon home =" (with no argument to the right of the
equals sign) in smb.conf. We also went around to user Windows PCs and, from the
System control panel, changed profiles from "roaming" to
"local".

However, when the user logs out and back in, the profile changes back to
roaming, with ugly consequences on our WAN.

I do have a "profiles" share defined, and when the user is set for
roaming profiles it does work correctly, but I need not to do roaming profiles
at all.


Thanks,
Jonathan Wilson

Hi

I don't know if you resolved this yet but I have the same thing on Centos 
4.1
which uses the same version of samba. pdbedit won't change the profile
nor will changes in smb.conf so I
added the 'sambaSamAccount' attribute 'sambaProfilePath' with
"" as the
entry
for the user I was testing.  now 'pdbedit -Lv user' shows the profile
path
changed to ""
which 'should' turn it off. [??]
I only get the error 'cannot save the profile' once in a while [usually
the
users 1st logon]
so it may re-appear for me if I'm wrong here.
 I have no 'profiles' share on my server yet. Just testing.
BYW...did you disable it in smbldap.conf before you populated the ldap??
I had it enabled there and now it seems to be the default for all users new 
and old.
Kevin B

From: "jonathan.wilson" <jonathan.wilson@odl.com
To: <samba@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 8:04 AM
Subject: [Samba] profiles reverting from local to roaming

>
> Hello,
>
> I have a shiny new RHES4 box running Samba 3.0.10-1.4E (as included in the 
> Red Hat distribution) which is set up as a domain controller, using 
> openLDAP and the IdealX scripts. User PCs are Windows 2000 and XP.
>
> We would like to avoid roaming profiles altogether, so we set "logon
path
> =" and "logon home =" (with no argument to the right of the
equals sign)
> in smb.conf. We also went around to user Windows PCs and, from the System 
> control panel, changed profiles from "roaming" to
"local".
>
> However, when the user logs out and back in, the profile changes back to 
> roaming, with ugly consequences on our WAN.
>
> I do have a "profiles" share defined, and when the user is set
for roaming
> profiles it does work correctly, but I need not to do roaming profiles at 
> all.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan Wilson
>
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