On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Jonathan Gowland wrote: > We are using a system running Red Hat Linux 7.0 with Samba 2.2.7a as > our PDC. > > For the most part, we want to use roaming profiles, so that users' > settings are backed up via the PDC, and are available if they need to > change or reinstall their Windows desktop machine. However, there are > a few Windows systems (running NT 4.0 or Windows 2000) for which > we would like to be able to disable roaming profiles. > > Atlas is a system running Windows 2000 server. It is a member of the > domain. > > On a system running Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server edition I did the > following: > > - Logged on as local administrator. > > - Ran poledit.exe. > > - Added machine Atlas. > > - Double-clicked Atlas icon. Under "Windows NT User Profiles"->"Choose > profile default operation", selected "Use local profile". > > - Saved as NTConfig.pol and copied to the root directory of the netlogon > share. > > When a user does a domain logon on Atlas, the Samba log log.atlas does > not show NTConfig.pol being accessed. When the user logs off, updates > to the user's profiles are saved. > > Agrigento is a system running Windows 2000 Workstation, and is also a > member of the domain. I ran poledit.exe as above, but added a computer > entry for Agrigento, and saved NTConfig.pol. > > When a user does a domain logon on Agrigento, the Samba log > log.agrigento shows NTConfig.pol being accessed. However, when the user > logs off, updates to the user's profiles are saved, so the policy change > in NTConfig.pol seems to have no effect.
You need to make the profile a mandatory profile if you want it to be read-only. The proedure is documented in the NT4/Win2K Server Resource kits. > > So what am I doing wrong? Is it possible to disable the use of roaming > profiles on a per-machine basis? (I've been told that you can do this > on a per-account basis, but this is not appropriate for our needs.) By default all MS Windows roaming profiles are 'user' centric. I do not know of a way to do this on a 'machine-of-origin' basis. I am working on this for a presentation at the SambaXP conference so I am interested in any of your findings. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba