Hi guys, I do seme help-out work for a company whose IT guys setup a FC4 box with Samba (fully up to date via YUM) running as a DC. The client desktops are all identical (at least after they got stolen and replaced). Profiles are roaming, so the users can log on on any machine. The software they run is fairly limited - Office 2003, Outlook with Communigate Pro plugin, Norman antivirus, Adobe reader. That's about it. The problem is that logging in gets slower and slower, logging out even more so and on a lot of machines just never finish. I have moved "My Documents" out of the profile and into the mapped "home" shares, to bring down the size of the profiles. This helps a little, but before long it slows down again. There is only one more thing I can think of - somehow cause samba to exclude the Outlook offline store (in $profile/Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook/Outlook/) but even if I delete it, log out, login to the server, make sure it's deleted there, log in again on the workstation, and logout without opening Outlook (so that store isn't created again), I still get the same problem. Still, the profiles tend to be under 2GB. The domain users have no prevs on their machines, so they can't mess up Windows. What bothers me even more is that I have the exact same smb.conf on a number of SUSE (9.1 through 10.0) and Debian Sarge/Etch servers, and on those networks I never have this problem, even where the machines are all different, use various bits of different software, the domain user account have local admin prevs, and profiles are up to 10GB. Is there any reason for this to happen? Is it just FC4's samba that's buggy (like just about everything else seems to be on FC4) or is there a real cause for this? Thanks Hans
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:25:45 +0100, Alan Goodman <alan@savegamehosting.com> wrote:> Hans du Plooy wrote: > Did you check how large the roaming profiles are? If they are large > then investigate what is causing the extra size.Yes, as mentioned in my original mail, the profiles are no bigger than 2GB. This is large, but I have other clients who have profiles of up to 6GB. Sure, they take long to logon/logoff, but not this long and they don't not finish, like these ones do. Thanks Hans smb.conf: # version at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/smb.conf.SUSE # Date: 2004-10-05 [global] # Identification workgroup = DOMAIN netbios name = SERVER server string = Associated Magazines Server JHB # Networking interfaces = 192.168.2.1/24 # include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf domain master = yes local master = yes preferred master = yes wins support = yes # os level default is 65 os level = 99 # User management and security username map = /etc/samba/smbusers map to guest = Bad User security = user add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /dev/null -s /bin/false %m$ # Logon & Domain settings domain logons = yes logon path = \\%N\Profiles\%U logon home = \\%L\%U logon drive = H: # logon script = netlogon.bat # Password management passdb backend = smbpasswd passwd program = /usr/bin/smbpasswd %u unix password sync = yes encrypt passwords = yes # passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Please*retype*new*password* %n\n *password*successfully*updated* # Logging log level = 2 syslog = 0 # Printing printing = cups printcap name = cups printcap cache time = 750 cups options = raw # printer admin = @ntadmin, root, administrator [netlogon] path = /home/shares/netlogon write list = @ntadmin read only = Yes browseable = no [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S browseable = no read only = no inherit acls = yes create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 [profiles] comment = Network Profiles Service path = /home/shares/profiles read only = no store dos attributes = yes create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba printable = Yes browseable = No use client driver = yes printer admin = root, Administrator, jcurtis # Custom Shares [Technical] comment = Software, drivers, etc path = /shares/technical browseable = yes valid users read list write list = administrator [Shared] comment = General share path = /shares/shared browseable = yes valid users writeable = yes create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777