I don't guarantee it will work, but try adding the following line to your profiles share:
csc policy = disable It disables client side caching on a share - so this might help the XP problem. Glen Gibb Ridley College On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, James wrote: > Hi, > > Ive got my PDC up and running under samba, it is serving several windows > 2000 machines and a windows XP machine. > > The problem is when using Roaming Profiles....... > > Were using Outlook XP + IMAP Mail for the users emails, which works fine.... > the only problem comes when logging off the machine and back to another. The > windows 2000 machines seem to update the profile changes back to the server. > The windows XP machines update NEW files (eg on the desktop if i make a new > text document) but not remove files which should be deleted, or update edits > to files. (eg if i delete a file off the desktop of the profile when on the > XP machine, it wont be deleted from the server when I log off, and i do mean > files, not shortcuts). > > I assume this must be some sort of caching problem with XP, or maybe its > something I can manage from my smb.conf, totally lost at the moment :( > > I also cannot get the U: drive to be automounted to the users home > directory....... although I had that working at one point (as i said, > totally lost at the moment) > > Any suggestions on the problem + my smb.conf (below) would be much > appreciated. > > -James > > # Global parameters > [global] > workgroup = BENCE > netbios name = FAIRVIEW > server string = BENCE PDC > encrypt passwords = Yes > update encrypted = Yes > log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log > max log size = 0 > time server = Yes > socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 > domain admin group = root > logon script = /etc/samba/login.%.bat > logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U > logon drive = u: > logon home = \\%L\%U > domain logons = Yes > os level = 255 > preferred master = True > domain master = True > dns proxy = No > > [homes] > comment = Home Directories > path = /users/%U/smbhome > guest account = > valid users = %S > read only = No > browseable = No > > [netlogon] > comment = Logon scripts and policies > path = /samba/netlogon > create mask = 0644 > > [profiles] > comment = Roaming profiles directory > path = /samba/profiles > read only = No > create mask = 0600 > directory mask = 0700 > share modes = No > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
