samba - Aug 2012 - Making Happy Users ... I need to understand...

Hello, I'm posting here because I'm in a need to understand.
Sorry for my bad english.

I know that I could figure out how to make it work with a "trial and
error" method but I do want to know how it works and not to do "a l?
Windows"...

I work in a high school. Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Samba 3.2.5 + LDAP (I know
I have to update ...)

Browsing user profiles are useful but they are really slowing down our
network and login times... 

so I disabled this option setting in smb.conf from:

    logon home                  = \\%N\profile
    logon path                  = \\%N\profile
  
to:

    logon home                      logon path                  
disabling browsing profiles at all.  All works well creating the
profiles on the fly from the Defaul User profile.
But since the browsing profiles are useful, 
I followed this guide to use the profile data from the lan:

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html#id2581407

and I understand all but this:
> Now follow the procedure given in ?The Local Group Policy?. Make
> sure that each folder you have redirected is in the exclusion list. 
Why I have to do this? If I have disabled browing profiles (am I right
in disabling this option?) why I should exclude some dirs from the
browsing profiles if they do not actually have any chance to be
replicated?

Many thanks to whom will be so kind to enlight me about this (obscure?)
Samba feature...

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Marco Ciampa

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| Linux User  #78271 |
| FSFE fellow   #364 |
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If OT someone could please point me to the right mailing list?

TIA

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Marco Ciampa

+--------------------+
| Linux User  #78271 |
| FSFE fellow   #364 |
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Em 07-08-2012 19:08, Marco Ciampa escreveu:
> Why I have to do this? If I have disabled browing profiles (am I right 
> in disabling this option?) why I should exclude some dirs from the 
> browsing profiles if they do not actually have any chance to be 
> replicated? 
The profiles share is important to have romaing profiles, i.e. user 
profiles get saved on the server when the user logoff the workstation, 
so it can be loaded on another machine, if the user changes workstation. 
This is the source of slow-down login/logoff: the profile must be 
transfered from and to the server.

If you disable this, obviously you loose also the feature. Disable if 
you don't need it. This share is not meant for the admin to fool around 
user's files, but to provide a feature.

Folder redirection is a mean to off-load this data transit between 
server x workstation, pointing potentially 'fat' folders outside the 
user profile, so they don't get touched on login/logout. Meaningless if 
you disable profiles share.

Regards.

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*Marcio Merlone*