you the man thanks
What I ended up doing was adding those two configs to smb.conf liek recommended. Then I went into gpedit.msc and turned off roaming profiles. Works good. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bradley W. Langhorst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Adam Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 12:17 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Roaming Profiles, My Documents and XP > On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 11:14, Adam Lang wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I successfully joined an XP machine to my Samba PDC. > > > > When looking at the profile folder on the samba server for the user (which I > > had to create manually. Is there a way this can be done automatically?) I > > saw the My Documents folder was copied up. > > > > I was thinking this was cool because people would have their stuff stored on > > the server and wouldn't have to teach them anything different. > > > > One problem I thought though was if they have like a gigabyte of documents. > > Would this mean it would have to download all of that before it would finish > > booting? > that's true only if you keep my documents in the profile... > instead you should redirect my documents to their home directory > that way all their docs stay on the server. > > > > Also, I created a folder in the My Documents folder and copied some files > > into it to see if it copied up, it did. I went to delete it and it cleared > > out. I logged off and back on and files inside the deleted folder were > > gone, but the folders returned. Is this a problem or do I need to fix > > something? > this won't be a problem if you redirect my documents > > > > I have no problem going back to a login script to set a home directory for a > > mapped drive, but apparently the login scripts for win98 machines aren't > > same for winxp (location ways), but I will look into that. > you don't need a logon script to do this... just configure samba > to do it. > with > logon drive = H: > logon home = \\yourserver\%U > > brad > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
