unfortunately I don't have any thing to add.( and that kills my chance to
be contribute :-( )

In fact the howto is reach enough. Just have to try some alternatives.
for example
1) creating machine trust account:
here we can do it in two ways 1) automatically(I.e. by script) or 2)
manually ( I.e. issue command for every machine)

in case of first one, adding a command in smb.conf file will create an
account for every machine connects it. However, it did not work in my case,
so I had to go for manual setting of machine accounts.

secondly in smb.conf file, how to shows that the parameters

logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U
logon drive = K:
logon home = \\homeserver\%U

this did not work, but in the same howto, somewhere later (8.8.2.
Configuration Instructions: Setting up Roaming User Profiles)
it says
"The default for logon  path is \\%N\%U\profile, namely
\\sambaserver\username\profile. The \\N%\%U service is created automatically
by the [homes] service. If you are using a samba server for the profiles,
you _must_ make the share specified in the logon path browse. "

So I selected that alternative , and set above parameters to
logon path = \\%N\\%U\profile
logon drive = K:
logon home = \\%N\%U

(I could figure out from this that, %N shows the name of smb server and %U
is the username)

and things started to work.

I read
Chapter 8. How to Configure Samba 2.2 as a Primary Domain Controller

the url for this is
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#SAMBA-PDC

HTH

Now there is only one problem, users are not able to do some administrative
task, for example change the dns, create outlook profiles, etc..

-kvs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shridhar Daithankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "kvs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "linux help" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] how to setup a roaming profile in linux login server.


> No way.. It would be even great i you(or anybody) communicate the document
> changes/addition to SAMBA team. It will make the documentation richer and
you
> will be one of the contributors..
>
>   Shridhar
>
> kvs wrote:
>
> > I would love to do it. It would be better for my record aslo so that in
> > future if i have to do it, i would not find any difficulty.
> >
> > But i think i will copy and paste some code from smb howto and modify it
a
> > little.
> > Does it create any copyright problem?
> >
> > -kvs
>
>


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