Hi I hope someone can help… We currently have Windows XP Professional PCs that logon to an old Novell Netware 3.12 server. We’re just using the standard Windows Netware client, and each user has a Windows XP User account and password that matches their Novell one. When they logon to Windows, they are automatically authenticated to Novell.
However, we are now in the final stages of deploying a Samba server to replace the Novell one. The Samba server is configured as a Primary Domain Controller, and seems to be working fine. We do not wish to use roaming profiles, so the profiles will be held locally on each PC. We wanted to test the migration of modifying the PC network clients to login to the new server, and have cloned a hard drive. I haven’t played with this myself, but we’re unsure how to join the new domain, such that the existing profiles (eg desktop layout, applications, etc etc) are retained for each user. When we simply change the PC properties to join the domain, we lose the users’ settings. For example, if we have a user named Mike who is logging on to our new domain of scodomain, it creates a profile under ‘My Documents & Settings’ named mike.scodomain. There is already a profile named ‘mike’. Both users have administrative access on the PC. We’ve tried creating and logging on as another administrative user then copying the contents of the profiles folder from mike to mike.scodomain (including hidden files), but we don’t get the settings that mike has. I’d really appreciate some pointers on this. It must be easy (there again, it’s Microsoft…) I think we’ve looked at right- clicking on My Computer, Properties, User accounts, Profiles (or something like that) and copying profiles. Also, the administrative tool in the Control Panel. David -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
