On 5 October 2012 17:36, steve <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/10/12 17:21, Michael Wood wrote: >> >> On 5 October 2012 13:14, steve <[email protected]> wrote: >> [...] >>> >>> Hi >>> It's working here with Version 4.0.0rc3-GIT-56ffe75 >>> >>> All we do to set up the roaming profile on Linux is to add the attribute: >>> profilePath: \\server\profiles\steve2 >>> to the user DN entry in LDAP. >>> >>> and whilst we're there we also map his windows home directory to his >>> Linux >>> home directory: >>> homeDrive: Z: >>> homeDirectory: \\server\home\steve2 >>> >>> Make sure that the profiles share is writeable by the users. We chmod >>> 1777'd >>> it. >>> >>> HTH >>> Steve >> >> I've never looked at this and don't need it now, but I'm interested. >> How is this implemented on client? > > [...] Linux clients map whatever the [home] > share points at to the unixHomeDirectory attribute. The latter can use > either winbind or nslcd to pull the info from ldap. > Let me know if you need any more detail.
That doesn't sound like a roaming profile at all. As far as I understand it a roaming profile is copied to the client on login and copied/synced back to the server on logout. I think that's what Mario and Denis are talking about. Is that possible on Linux clients? If so, how is it implemented? With csync as Denis asked? -- Michael Wood <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
