Hello, I am setting up Samba as my primary domain controller for my network to connect all my windows machines. I can get the machines to join the network, but I have a couple problems. Maybe someone here can help:
1.) When switching from a workgroup (single client machines) to the domain, is there a way to transfer the profiles, so everyone's desktop/icons/files are the same as they were?
Yes.
We do as follows:
When you switch to domain logon with the Network ID wizard, create a local user as well.
After the reboot, log in as this user, on the domain, and log out again.
Log in locally as Administrator, right-click on "My Computer", select Properties, and select the "User Profiles" tab. You should now have several profiles.
Select the local profile for the old user, click Copy To. Select browse. Find the roaming profile for the network user somewhere in c:\Documents and Settings
Typically, if your local user is joeuser, the locally cached copy of the domain profile will be named joeuser.<your domain>. Select this.
The next point "Permitted to use", click change, select your domain at the top and find the user in the list.
Click OK in the Copy To window, click OK to overwrite.
When you logon as joeuser on the domain, the local profile is used, and when you log out, it will be copied to the server.
Mogens
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