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Hello folks! I have a "small" problem configuring samba-3.0.9 (on Debian, if that matters). My samba server acts like primary domain controller, and my users can log to the domain. But, their profiles are not roaming (yes, those users have roaming profile selected on every workstation, that's not it). That is - they are not created on samba machine, but instead, on every workstation I have c:\documents and settings\username.domain, with all their data. As you can imagine, that's not what I want. Btw, w...

Guys, I've identified a problem "I think" Config: Samba 2.2.8a on Linux and Solaris WinXP SP1 and Win2kSP4 workstations We have a problem here, when logging out and using roaming profiles on a samba host take significantly longer than logging out when the profile is stored on a Win2k server. Looking closely I've discovered the following. On each logout, numerous files, that have not changed are still copied up to the server. Looking more closely, I discovered that s...

Hi, Over the last few years, I've been using a rather bone-headed solution to implement centralized authentication and roamin user profiles in Linux-based networks: a combination of NIS and NFS. I'm aware it's not ideal in terms of security, but it's been running in our local school since 2010, and it just works. The current setup is based on Slackware Linux on both server and desktop clients. Here's...

Hello, I just setup samba3.0.13-1.1 and have trouble getting the netlogon Default User roamin profile to work. After joining the machine to the domain but Windows 2000, when i try to login with a samba user, the client gives errors during login process. Two small windows popup saying it could not load the roaming profile because security settings of the Default User profile is not correct a...

Dear Group, I'm using samba 3.x as a PDC, and I'm using linux system quota v2 for samba. Here is my problem: if a user copies a big file to the desktop (bigger than the quota set for that user), when he logs off, the profile wont syncronize with the server with the message "disk full". Is there a way to let the WinXp client to understand how much space is available also for

Hi I am managing samba server in school. "Server" is on VIA 800MHz processor with 80GB IDE hard drive. there is no domain at the moment, just simple sharing, security share and smbpasswd file. I have 300 computers (each classroom has 20) with winxp sp2 auto logon limited local account, 300 users (6 intake groups). Passworded home directorys on Samba and Pupils have access to it by