"That's the point. I am pushing the idea that our problem is not using folder redirection and the Windows guy is pushing the idea that its samba itself."
Spot-on. Your windows guy just needs to implement a few AD registry tweaks (see below etc) to get things working sweetly, and folder redirection (to MS-Server or samba/linux) is considered to be best-practice in every microsoft house I've ever come across. No-one uses roaming profiles without it, unless all their workstations are wired with 10GB ethernet to the most over-spec'd server I've ever seen, or their users don't actually roam more than once every six months... On 28 June 2012 20:09, Ben Metcalfe <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's a decent summary of roaming profiles on the latest windows > iterations. > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848267 > > "Branche cache" may also be relevant: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831696 > > WIthout the original windows admin here to query its difficult to be sure, > but he might well have been talking about having "offline files" enabled on > redirected folders attached to roaming profiles, which will display an > rsync-like behaviour when reconnected. > "Offline files" works on my illumos-based ZFS/samba NAS (the last time I > checked) indistinguishably from the way it does against microsoft smb > shares though, so I can't see any reason why it shouldn't work on linux > samba... or maybe I'm not testing it rigourously. > > > http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/springboard/archive/2010/04/19/understanding-user-state-virtualization-improvements-in-windows-7.aspx > > Here's an old (but still applicable?) HOWTO for enabling Vista's specific > "offline files" efficiently against samba/linux: > > http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2007/03/16/using-offline-files-with-samba-emc-servers-nas-devices.aspx > YMMV on Windows 7 and 8. > > > On 28 June 2012 16:26, Chris Weiss <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Dave Ewart <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Thursday, 28.06.2012 at 11:07 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: >> > >> >> On Thu, 28 Jun 2012, Todor Fassl wrote: >> >> >Our Windows guy insists samba is slow but I don't believe it. He >> >> >claims that when you load a roamng profile, Windows downloads only >> >> >files that have changed and samba downloads everything. But he >> >> >doesn't know anything about samba and I don't know where he got that >> >> >from. >> > >> > However native speed won't be important if, under Samba, a full roaming >> > profile is downloaded on each login whereas under Windows an rsync-like >> > action takes place to only download minimal changes. I don't know >> > whether that's the case or not, whether it's configurable behaviour >> > under either Samba or Windows Server, but it's certainly an interesting >> > point. >> >> is it possible that unix file timestamps having a greater precision >> than ntfs is causing windows to see a "change"? I know rsync has an >> option to combat this. >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >> instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >> > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
