On 07/21/2011 11:31 AM, Geert Mak wrote:
On 21.07.2011, at 17:07, Tanuki uk wrote:
Hello,
I'm quite new to Samba administration and I've inherited a working
samba setup with roaming profiles however the login and logout
times for users has been growing and I'm starting to think it's
time do something about it.
I'd be curious what you are going to do.
I personally inherited a similar situation a year ago, where the
roaming profiles were supposed to allow the users to work from
different locations in a 50 people company spread around two
buildings on three floors. As far as I understand the roaming
profiles, one has to log out in order to log in. This was the first
problem - people used to log into one PC, then into another, and then
wonder where their desktop items have gone (last logout overwrites
the previous). Could be something has been set wrong, I did not
investigate.
You are somewhat correct. The profile gets read by each machine that
logs onto the network. Conversely, when a users logs off a machine its
profile is written back to the profile server.
Also they had these huge long loading and unloading
times.
A profile includes the files on the desktop and in the "My Documents"
folder. Obviously, as this volume of data grows the logon and logoff
times will increase.
Also, they do not have everywhere the same software (some
licenses are expensive). So I stopped using roaming profiles and
introduced Remote desktop. Now people, who happen to be "somewhere"
in the company and need to access their PC, just open Remote desktop,
remember the last three digits of their IP address (192.168.1.*) and
they are on their PC, all apps open as they have left them, etc.
Nice solution!
- John T.
But of course, this is one scenario, which might not be good in all
cases. Our users work 80% of their time on their PC and then it
happens they need to work for a couple of hours on another PC, which
happens to be free at this moment. Just thought it might help to
share it with you.
Geert.
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