Hello, I've finally managed to get roaming profiles working (kindof). However some issues (after lots of googling) remain unresolved. Here's a summary of what I've done to date: 1) Setup samba shares according to gentoo-wiki.org <http://gentoo-wiki.org>(there were some problems with permissions etc after that but they're ok now) 2) Edited NTUSER of a foobar user account via the registry and configured it for my documents redirection and execution of a inituser.cmd file (runonce key) 3) Created an inituser.cmd file under /var/lib/samba/netlogon with the following content: start "Copying ..." /min xcopy /I /E /H /K /Y "%LOGONSERVER%\NETLOGON\Default User\My Documents" "%HOMESHARE%\" 4) Added map system = yes map archive = yes map hidden = yes in smb.conf to prevent desktop.ini from showing up everywhere 6) Loged in as Foobar and configured the profile to my liking 7) I copied c:\documents and settings\Foobar to the /tmp samba share (so the file attributes get copied too) 8) Moved it to the netlogon share and renamed it to Default User 9) Setup exclude directories in the local group policy to Temporary Internet Files; History; Temp; My Documents) 10) Created new user in linux, created new windows user via smbpasswd 11) Logged in as the new user Problems: 1) After logging in, the default profile seems to be setup correctly. However I have set a custom wallpaper which is located in c:\windows in the local machine. After logging in the wallpaper is not there. The only way to make it work is right click on the desktop, properties, and open the desktop tab. After doing that (I don't even have to click on the wallpaper entry in the list, let alone browse for it, it's already there), that is just clicking on the desktop tab (I really felt I had to stress this), the wallpaper gets loaded in the preview section of the window. Just pressing ok, or apply will render it properly on screen. I just cannot understand what is the reason why it wasn't set in the first place! 2) Desktop.ini files are hidden. Well except one! When I click on the My Documents folder (which is redirected to /home/%U on the linux box running the samba service) there's a desktop.ini file in all its glory! I right-clicked on it and opened the properties window, where the hidden option is unselected. I selected it, clicked on OK and the file is still there. I opened the properties window again only to find out that the hidden check box is still off... Any ideas? 3) On logging off I get this annoying synchronization thing. I would consider it to be normal if it didn't take such a long time! The thing is even if I logon locally, as Administrator and then log out again, it also popups trying to synchronize all roaming users who have logged on to date on that computer (users who have a c:\documents and settings profile on disk I presumed...). At a certain point it prompts for a username and password. No matter what I provide, it fails. I've read on the net that many people disable synchronization but should I? The thing is I don't understand how it really works. With roaming profiles on, (but without my documents redirection) never had any such window popped up (synchronization) I'm really desperate so any help would be greatly appreciated, Thank you in advance, George
I've been having troubles with roaming profiles too. I have faced some of the same problems as you and will try some of your solutions. FWIW, this may help:-> Problems: > 1) After logging in, the default profile seems to be setup correctly. > However I have set a custom wallpaper which is located in c:\windows in > the > local machine. After logging in the wallpaper is not there. The only way > to > make it work is right click on the desktop, properties, and open the > desktop > tab. After doing that (I don't even have to click on the wallpaper entry > in > the list, let alone browse for it, it's already there), that is just > clicking on the desktop tab (I really felt I had to stress this), the > wallpaper gets loaded in the preview section of the window. Just pressing > ok, or apply will render it properly on screen. I just cannot understand > what is the reason why it wasn't set in the first place!Is it a JPEG? If so, try a BMP instead (convert the picture if you need to). I've found that JPEG wallpapers don't seem to roam.> 2) Desktop.ini files are hidden. Well except one! When I click on the My > Documents folder (which is redirected to /home/%U on the linux box running > the samba service) there's a desktop.ini file in all its glory! I > right-clicked on it and opened the properties window, where the hidden > option is unselected. I selected it, clicked on OK and the file is still > there. I opened the properties window again only to find out that the > hidden > check box is still off... Any ideas?Hummm, I'm going to try your solution too. At the moment, I have the following in each share:- hide files = /DESKTOP.INI/desktop.ini/Desktop.ini/ Seems to work... (I also hide Maildir on the Home share)> 3) On logging off I get this annoying synchronization thing. I would > consider it to be normal if it didn't take such a long time! The thing is > even if I logon locally, as Administrator and then log out again, it also > popups trying to synchronize all roaming users who have logged on to date > on > that computer (users who have a c:\documents and settings profile on disk > I > presumed...). At a certain point it prompts for a username and password. > No > matter what I provide, it fails. I've read on the net that many people > disable synchronization but should I? The thing is I don't understand how > it > really works. With roaming profiles on, (but without my documents > redirection) never had any such window popped up (synchronization)I've disabled it, yes. It's handy for laptops, but I've redirected all the local stuff to the network anyway (so if sync is on, it's syncing one network location with another). AFAIK it's the big directories (like My Docs) that use sync. The other stuff (like Faves etc.) is copied as part of the profile when you log out ("Saving your settings").> I'm really desperate so any help would be greatly appreciated,I hope that my ramblings are of some assistance :-) -- Paul