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From http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ProfileMgmt.html: Disabling Roaming Profile Support The question often asked is, ?How may I enforce use of local profiles?? or ?How do I disable roaming profiles?? There are three ways of doing this: In smb.conf Affect the following settings and ALL clients will be forced to use a local profile: logon home...

...more up-to-date Samba version which is 3.3.2). Now, roaming profiles no longer work. I even wonder what would be the proper to way to test them. Workstations are running Windows XP. I followed the procedure for Win2000/XP located here: http://us6.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ProfileMgmt.html#id2660622 and the profile conversion for userx took place; however, looking on the workstation, it says that userx's profile is roaming but its status is local. Adding a file on the Desktop, and after logout, the file is not synched to the server. Thanks, -- Marc Delisle http://info...

Hi, I have my Samba Server setting as a PDC, but I wouldn't like that Windows XP store and retrieve profile from the server. Does anyone know how I can do it? Thanks, Cleiton

Hi I am using Mandrake 9.2, Samba 2.4 version as a PDC. How do I enable the roaming profiles on the server via /etc/samba/smb.conf? Thx Morn? ##################################################################################### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by FinSource Infrastructure Services' MailMarshal

Are there special issues when using XP home with Samba? I have a machine that when trying to log in as the user Mike, the logs show that it is trying to login in as Mike Barsalou. I tried making another user mbarsalou but I can't get it to authenticate properly. I was thinking it was a feature of XP home. Anyone have ideas? Mike

I have a PC running XP that several users share. I've logged in as them on it and right clicked on my documents and redirected it for each person to r:\my documents so that their roaming profiles will load faster. I've ran into a problem that when anyone logs out on this PC, XP attempts to synchronize my documents of everyone that has logged into that PC with folder redirection.

Hi guys, How are you ? I've installed samba-3.0.7 from source on a Slackware Linux 10.0 server configured with "--with-ldap" as a backend (OpenLDAP-2.2.13) and with nss_ldap installed. I have my profiles share configured as follows: [profiles] comment = Profile Share path = /data/profiles writeable = yes guest ok = yes browseable = no profile acls = yes csc policy = disable

Hi All, We have an NT4 machine which is our PDC. I'm looking to replace this with one of our linux servers. I joined the linux server to the domain ok. Then I vampired all the accounts across which worked ok. I then switched off NT PDC, made samba the master and start samba service. Problem is we are loosing all our settings. After a quick hunt around I noticed a new profiles

I'm mulling over the idea of replacing my Win 2k MS AD using Samba. But I'd like to retain roaming profile capability for all my users. Based on your experience is it stable enough to implement for a production environment? I have only 30 using Win 2k Pro and some XP. What are the pit falls I need to look out for? Thank you! Joe

Debian stable: Samba -3.0.24-6etch2 I set up a samba server as a pdc. smb.conf logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U logon home = \\%L\%U [profiles] comment = Network PRofiles Share path = /home/samba/profiles #read only = No #store dos attributes = Yes #create mask = 0600 #directory mask = 0700 #browseable = no #guest ok = no #printable = no writable = yes I created the folders /home/samba

Hi list: I've been using samba+ldap as a PDC with roaming profiles for some time but recently I joined some machines to the domain wich are used by several users and then started the problems, the profiles loaded are not the ones owned by the users, I mean user1 loads the profile of the user2 and so on. I'm using Debian Etch (stable) with samba 3.0.24. Any Help Thanks Harol Hunter

Hello samba dancers, I'm Friedrich Strohmaier and new to this mailing list. More important: I'm (very) new to PDCing Computers in a network, and I ran in big troubles doing so. Try to tell a long story in short: I'm a fairly experienced administrator for linux systems, and was orderd to move a serverinstallation (SuSE7.0, Samba2.2.x) to a new machine. The old machine did stop

How do you enable local profile creation on machines connected to a samba PDC? I thought it would be automatic, but it doesn't seem to be. If there isn't a roving profile, windows complains it can't find your profile on the server, then instead of creating a local one, it throws up this message: "Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary

Hi all I have a samba 3.0.21c with OpenLDAP 2.3.19 as Primary Domain Controller. I would like to enable Roaming Profiles per user basis , not for all users. below is my smb.conf , [global] workgroup = mydomain.com <http://msdpl.com/> netbios name = mydomain passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://mydomain.com server string = Domain Controller hosts allow = 192.168.128. 192.168.129.

Is there any reason to believe that a samba server would be slower when serving up roaming profiles than a real Windows server? I know roaming profiles are slow by nature and that there are things you can do to help like configuring ffolder redirection. But all else being equal, how would a samba server compare to a Windows server when it comes to speed specifically with respect to roaming

I want to setup a linux box with samba as a file and print server for a LAN of 20 NT 4.0 SP3 workstations. I want the home direcotories to be on the server the clients to have roaming profiles. For this, do I have to make the linux box a domain controller? I want to avoid it if I can, because the domain control code in not on the production releases. I don't want to setup an NT server either.

We're using Samba 3.0.21a-1 on a CentOS 4.2 server (kernel 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp); everything works more or less fine, it's functioning as the PDC with an OpenLDAP back end (setup essentially straight from the Idealx.org playbook), etc. We're trying to mount Windows shares to back them up, and getting "permission denied" errors when trying to read certain files from those