Joe, Given how many MS Windows sites use roaming profiles it is safe to say that it is stable enough.
Do you mean is Samba stable enough? Well again, we have a huge number of users, I'd say it is. OK. So if you mean does Samba handle profile in a stable manner? Samba does not handle profiles - the Windows client does. The windows client reads the users' profile from the profile share and writes it back on logout. I have set up hundreds of sites that use roaming profiles with a Samba domain controller - so far none have had any problems. That does not means that problems do not exist, but if they do the users have not noticed them or are too reluctant to report them. I'll leave that to your interpretation. Pitfalls? Well, if you follow Chapter 6 of the Samba-3 By Example book and you have a problem I'll help you to solve it - so far as the problem is capable of being solved. Oh, if you do not want to buy the book - download it for free from http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf Cheers, John T. On Tuesday 09 November 2004 09:05, Joe Aldeguer wrote: > I'm mulling over the idea of replacing my Win 2k MS AD using Samba. But > I'd like to retain roaming profile capability for all my users. Based on > your experience is it stable enough to implement for a production > environment? > I have only 30 using Win 2k Pro and some XP. > > What are the pit falls I need to look out for? > > Thank you! > > Joe -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
