samba - Jun 2008 - roaming user profiles do not transfer all settings

this may sound like a basic question but i'm not entirely sure how
roaming profiles work so i'm not sure if i have it working properly. i
created a local user account on a client machine and then joined that
machine to the domain. i then logged in as domain administrator and
copied the user profile from the local machine to the server. if i
login with this user account (now the domain account) from another
machine, i can see the files that are supposed to be there but
everything else like the wallpaper, shortcuts, and windows styles are
not correct.... is roaming profiles supposed to work like this??? or
are you supposed to have the EXACT user settings no matter what
machine you log onto???

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Leandro Tracchia <ltracchia@gmail.com>
wrote:
> this may sound like a basic question but i'm not entirely sure how
> roaming profiles work so i'm not sure if i have it working properly. i
> created a local user account on a client machine and then joined that
> machine to the domain. i then logged in as domain administrator and
> copied the user profile from the local machine to the server. if i
> login with this user account (now the domain account) from another
> machine, i can see the files that are supposed to be there but
> everything else like the wallpaper, shortcuts, and windows styles are
> not correct....
How are they not correct?
>is roaming profiles supposed to work like this??? or
> are you supposed to have the EXACT user settings no matter what
> machine you log onto???
> --
Probably. If your wallpaper exists on the local machine and not in
your profile then logging on to some other machine with that roaming
profile will not get your wallpaper. Also shortcuts will contain the
machine that created them so if you install an app on machine 1 and it
puts a shortcut in your profile that shortcut when clicked on machine
2 will still want to run the application from machine 1.

John

John

Leandro Tracchia wrote:
> this may sound like a basic question but i'm not entirely sure how
> roaming profiles work so i'm not sure if i have it working properly. i
> created a local user account on a client machine and then joined that
> machine to the domain. i then logged in as domain administrator and
> copied the user profile from the local machine to the server. if i
> login with this user account (now the domain account) from another
> machine, i can see the files that are supposed to be there but
> everything else like the wallpaper, shortcuts, and windows styles are
> not correct.... is roaming profiles supposed to work like this??? or
> are you supposed to have the EXACT user settings no matter what
> machine you log onto???
>   
There is no need to copy the profile to the server. This happens 
automatically IF you've done the configuration correctly.  I believe all 
you need is to have something like this in your smb.conf:

[profiles]
        path = /home/samba/profiles
        read only = No

where path is the parent directory for your profiles.

I think John Drescher may be incorrect in his description of shortcuts. 
The shortcuts are normally relative to the machine, so you need to 
install the application in the same path on all the machines you wish to 
run it on. If the application hasn't been installed on a machine, you 
can't run it.

sounds like you didn't copy the user's NTUSER.DAT.  how did you copy the
profile?  drag and drop from c:\documents and settings\username to 
\\server\profiles\username or did you go to my computer properties, 
advanced, users, and change their profile to roaming and copy their 
profile with the copy button there to \\servers\profiles\username?

Leandro Tracchia wrote:
> this may sound like a basic question but i'm not entirely sure how
> roaming profiles work so i'm not sure if i have it working properly. i
> created a local user account on a client machine and then joined that
> machine to the domain. i then logged in as domain administrator and
> copied the user profile from the local machine to the server. if i
> login with this user account (now the domain account) from another
> machine, i can see the files that are supposed to be there but
> everything else like the wallpaper, shortcuts, and windows styles are
> not correct.... is roaming profiles supposed to work like this??? or
> are you supposed to have the EXACT user settings no matter what
> machine you log onto???
>

they are not correct because the wallpaper, shortcuts, and windows styles on
("client2") are different from the profile on the machine
("client1") that i
joined the domain with. the profile on "client1" is the profile that
should
have been copied to the server and also that profile is roaming and should
appear on all other machines. it is my understanding that the user should be
able to log on to any machine and see his EXACT settings every time.


On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:48 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Leandro Tracchia
<ltracchia@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > this may sound like a basic question but i'm not entirely sure how
> > roaming profiles work so i'm not sure if i have it working
properly. i
> > created a local user account on a client machine and then joined that
> > machine to the domain. i then logged in as domain administrator and
> > copied the user profile from the local machine to the server. if i
> > login with this user account (now the domain account) from another
> > machine, i can see the files that are supposed to be there but
> > everything else like the wallpaper, shortcuts, and windows styles are
> > not correct....
> How are they not correct?
>
> >is roaming profiles supposed to work like this??? or
> > are you supposed to have the EXACT user settings no matter what
> > machine you log onto???
> > --
> Probably. If your wallpaper exists on the local machine and not in
> your profile then logging on to some other machine with that roaming
> profile will not get your wallpaper. Also shortcuts will contain the
> machine that created them so if you install an app on machine 1 and it
> puts a shortcut in your profile that shortcut when clicked on machine
> 2 will still want to run the application from machine 1.
>
> John
>
> John
>