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We are using a system running Red Hat Linux 7.0 with Samba 2.2.7a as our PDC. For the most part, we want to use roaming profiles, so that users' settings are backed up via the PDC, and are available if they need to change or reinstall their Windows desktop machine. However, there are a few Windows systems (running NT 4.0 or Windows 2000) for which we would like to be able to disable roaming

Martin, There is a great deal more that needs to be done other then the creation of a smb.conf file for setting up a PDC for any Windows workstations. Unfortunately, I only have experience with setting up a PDC for a mixed bag of Windows 9x, Windows NT 4.0 and Win2K systems. The only WinXP machine we utilize is one laptop, which is rarely ever attached to the corporate network. So,

Simon, What version of Windows XP are you using? If your client has purchased computers from Best Buy or a similar electronics "mega-store" they likely received WinXP Home Edition. (Which is what it sounds like based upon the use of Win9x machines you mentioned.) If that is the case, then you will be unable to get the WinXP machines to see the Samba Server (or a Windows

Forcing Local Profiles with a Samba PDC Is there any way for Samba to force all NT and Win2k clients of a Samba 2.2.7 PDC to use LOCAL profiles instead of ROAMING profiles? In my area each M$ box is attached to test equipment. The differences in test equipment between M$ boxes is significant. Roaming profiles are causing boxes to complain about hardware that exists only on another box. Forcing

I have a few weird problems with profiles on my samba PDC. Right now I'm just testing with two XP pro clients. Samba is Samba version 3.0.2a-Debian The problems that I'm having and I believe are related are: 1.) Profiles are saved to the server, but don't migrate to different clients. This is very odd, I can make all sorts of changes to the profile and I can see those changes

Hello everyone. Well, I have a couple of questions regarding roaming profiles. I have been assigned the task of setting up a Samba PDC on our network. Lately, I have been doing a lot of research and reading to find out the best way I setup my system. I have a couple of questions I wanted to ask here, in hopes of getting some feedback. First, some details: The server will be Red Hat 8.0 with

How do you disable roaming profiles in Windows 2000? I know in Windows XP you use gpedit.msc but I don't see where in windows 2000 to disable roaming profiles. Any suggestions? Thanks, Adam

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

hey guys i want to hear your experience regarding this situation got this one user who store lots of big chunk files in his "My Documents" folder now as she logs out ... it took us several minutes for us to be able to shut down... how to take care of this? can i select which to include in the roaming files ... TIA Kent

Hi, I have got a problem with samba for days now and I don't know how to solve it. My problem is, that it doesn't matter if I enable or disable Roaming Profiles, all I get is a temporary profile. If i enable Roaming Profiles, than i get a temporary serverside Profile. If I disable Roaming Profiles, than i get a temporary local Profile. Can somebody please help me? With Roaming

I''m in the process of creating a sign up form for an online application. The form collects account info, company info, and then info for an administrative user. The method looks like this: def create @account = Account.create!(params[:account]) @company = @account.companies.create!(params[:company]) @user = @company.users.create!(params[:user]) end However, this inevitably fails

Hi, I wounder if someone else had this same problem that I have, and solved it. So here it goes... I have 15 WinXP Pro workstations, on a Domain controlled by a Samba 2.2.8. The domain has 36 users, each with an independent roaming profile, on the PDC. Every machine have Adobe Premiere installed. However Premiere's configuration is saved on each user's registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive.

I''m having problems knowing what a scenario outline I''ve created is doing. In particular I have no idea about what steps are being matched when the outline is run so when I break something I can''t find out what is wrong. Is there any progress on getting better output for scenario outlines. TIA Andrew -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was

I'm running Samba version 2.2.8a on redhat 8.0. i have been working with roaming profiles without problems, but since Win2000-SP4 i get the following error message: /rpc_server/srv_samr.c:api_samr_set_userinfo(670) api_samr_set_userinfo: Unable to unmarshall SAMR_Q_SET_USERINFO./ I changed the local policy to: * Do Not Check for Ownership of Roaming Profile Folders * Add the

Does anyone know if there is a way to disable roaming profiles, for a particular user, from the server side? I thought of trying to blank the server profile string in their account attributes, but of course that says 'use the default' which will be to do whatever smb.conf says. Will setting it to something nonsensical, like a space, make it think to not have one? I'd rather do

This might be simple, but I have been banging my head against google for awhile now and not an answer in sight... Anyway, Samba PDC with roaming profiles. When a user logs out the profile isn't written because it says that "The specified network name is no longer available" Whatever that is supposed to mean. Following is my smb.conf. Please CC me in replies as I am not subbed to the

Can Samba be used as a complete replacement for a Windows 2000 Active Directory server? I have some vague notion that this can be accomplished by using a combination of OpenLDAP, Samba, MIT Kerberos, and the OpenAFS file system. To say the least, the descriptions I have found have been vague as to whether or not I will be able to completely replace the functionality of an Active Directory server

On a windows server there is a local profile by default unless you tell it to have a roaming profile. I want to have the same thing happen. All the machines say that they used the local copy then a couple seconds later it says it could not copy to the server and any changes will not be saved. I know that I could let it be a roaming and switch it to a local later but in a larger

Thanks to the enthuiastic help of Mr. Dan Shearer and the excellent writings of John H. Terpstra (Samba-3 by Example) I have migrated an NT4 PDC to Samba 3.0.14a-2 on Fedora Core 4 (Cries of amazement) The clients (XP, NT4WS, Win2K, 98 and 95) didn't notice the switch (once I had made all the correct folders!) My questions now are fine tuning and filling in gaps in my Windows knowledge.

Hi We're running Samba 2.2.7a as a PDC for Windows2000 SP2 Clients. Everthing works just fine, but there is one problem: The clients save their profiles on the PDC (~/.Profiles), but don't delete the local copy of the profile (C:\My Documents\$user). This causes a really big problem, since the client's HD's aren't that big and these profiles grow every day. Is there any way