samba - Sep 2024 - Advice on Folder Redirection for users that work remotely

On Thursday, September 26th, 2024 at 07:17, Marco Gaiarin via samba <samba at
lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Mandi! June Chong | TechnologyWise via samba
> In chel di` si favelave...
> 
> > Would someone be able to advise us on how to handle 'Folder
Redirection'
> > for users that work remotely?
> 
> 
> I'm currently using roaming profiles, with quota, and with a careful
> exclusions from profiles by folder redirection and
'HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ExcludeProfileDirs'.
> 
> Clearly we get some troubles, but manageable.
> 
> Also: offline file (Client Side Cache, or CSC, in MS lingo) are enabled by
> default even on Win11, and get activated automatically for all redirected
> folders.
> 
> > We?ve noticed that user profiles often don?t load until users connect
to
> > the VPN tunnel. How do you handle issues where user profiles fail to
> > load before the user authenticates to the domain controller? While
> > trying to minimise any input from the end-users.
> 
> 
> For VPN users (and user wireless) profiles get not synced (because
connectivity
> goes up after logon), but it is intended; CSC do their work (so redirected
> folders are available to users) and if correctly tweaked you can enable or
> disable in VPN.
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Hi!

I have first disabled the automatic offline cache of redirected folders ever
since windows XP, now I do it through a GPO but before samba ad was here I used
to disable it via registry in the users netlogon script.

I used to use roaming profiles for many years, disabling CSC on the profiles
share and redirecting the "My documents" or "Documents"
location via GPO to the users home share on which I explicitly make available
offline but a couple of years ago I ditched the whole roaming profiles, never
looking back at them. I do keep the redirection of the "My documents"
to the users home share as I explained earlier.

With this set up the user can log in even without a connection to the domain
with the profile and access to their documents folder and when the connection
comes up they have access to the rest of the folders.

Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Dave.

Mandi! bd730c5053df9efb via samba
  In chel di` si favelave...
>> Also: offline file (Client Side Cache, or CSC, in MS lingo) are enabled
by
>> default even on Win11, and get activated automatically for all
redirected
>> folders.
> I have first disabled the automatic offline cache of redirected folders
ever since windows XP, now I do it through a GPO but before samba ad was here I
used to disable it via registry in the users netlogon script.
A clarification: i'm only make a note on the fact that CSC is still enabled
by default on windows clint OSes, but, clearly, i DISABLE it in LAN and keep
using it only when strictly needed (portable and roaming client).

Sorry.

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