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 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
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