It is! If i right click on My Computer and go to Profiles it shows MYDOMAIN\agent2 Roaming. I put a new folder on the desktop and changed the background. But, no roaming activity. No profile updates nothing. If i logout and go to another computer I will not get my profile on that computer.


On Jan 17, 2004, at 9:43 PM, John H Terpstra wrote:


On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Nathan Brown wrote:

Sorry, Ill be a little more specific.

1. I create user "Joe"
2. I give "joe" a password
3. "joe" logs on and the FOLDER /home/profile/joe (aka.
\\www\profile\joe) is created.
4. IF a profile exists in \\www\profile\joe and NOT locally, it will
read it from the server.
5. IF a profile exists LOCALLY, it will NOT read from the server.
6. In BOTH situations, the profile files will NOT be saved to the
server.

If you have a local profile, that will be used. That is normal behavior.


If you client uses the roaming profile it should write it back only if the
profile contents has changed during the current session. It will only do
that it the profile that is on the workstation is registered as a roaming
profile.


- John T.


May I also, I'm using Windows 2000 SP4 (But its an upgrade from WINNT).


On Jan 17, 2004, at 9:27 PM, John H Terpstra wrote:

Nathan,

Workstation default user profiles go in:
        C:\Application and User Defaults\'username'

Roaming profiles go in:

logon path/'username'

ie: If "logon path = \\server\profiles"

Fred's profile will go in \\server\profiles\fred

If the UNIX path for the [profiles] share is: /home/profiles
Fred's profile under UNIX will be in /home/profiles/fred

Note: You must create the directory 'fred' under the profile share
because
Samba does not automatically do that for you. If the directory does not
exist, the profile will not be saved.


Cheers,
John T.

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Nathan Brown wrote:

Perhaps I have a faulty Windows setup because I used the group policy
editor gpedit.msc and set it to delete all profiles after you logout
and to wait for roaming profiles. Perhaps I should re-install? Also,
where are the profiles supposed to go? The same place it downloaded it
from; the "logon path"?



On Jan 17, 2004, at 8:10 PM, John H Terpstra wrote:


On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Nathan Brown wrote:

I'm running Windows 2000 Professional and Samba 3.0.1 and I can't
seem
to get roaming profiles to work right. When there are no profiles
stored locally on the win2k machine, and a user logs in for the
first
time, it successfully reads the profile from the server in the
\\netlogon\Default User  share. Next, if you manually copy the
profile
to server and login to the workstation, it will read the profile.

The problem comes in when any changes are made to the profile or if
a
profile exists (for that user) on the workstation, it won't read the
profile from the server nor will it update the profile on the server
when they log off. I can't tell if this is a Windows problem or a
Samba
problem, but everything looks like it set correctly in Samba and on
Windows and I just don't know what to do now!

What you see is the correct Windows behavior. Windows will read the
Default Network Profile only the to create the users' default
profile.
That default will be stored on the local windows workstation in the
default location. If roaming profiles are enabled, the users' default
profile will be written to the profile share in a directory named as
the
user.


You can configure the workstation to delete a roaming profile on
logout.
Whent that is done, if the user has a 'per user' default profile it
will
be used in preference to the Network Default User profile.

Cheers,
John T.


Samba Config:


[global]
         workgroup = WORKSTATION
         time server = Yes
         log level = 11
         logon script = %u.bat
         logon drive = h:
         domain logons = Yes
         os level = 33
         preferred master = Yes
         domain master = Yes
         profile acls = yes
         logon home = \\www\%u
         logon path = \\www\profile\%u
         profile acls = yes

[profile]
         create mask = 0777
         directory mask = 0777
         writable = yes
         browseable = yes
         path = /home/profiles

[netlogon]
path = /usr/local/netlogon
read only = No
locking = No
root preexec = /usr/local/netlogon/logonscript.pl %U %M %m
root postexec = /usr/local/netlogon/logoutscript.pl %U %M
%m


[homes]
         comment = Home Directories
         read only = No
         create mask = 0700
         browseable = No



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