Hmm. Guess I'll try sending this to the right list now.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eric Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:46:13 -0800 Subject: Re: [Samba] Reality Check -> Roaming Profiles To: taclug mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What I've found useful by way of compromise is to use a logon script to map a drive to the user's share on the Samba server. On the client desktop I point "My Documents" at this drive and use gpedit to prevent the user from changing this target. This keeps users from saving to the "My Documents" directory in Documents and Settings, which makes the profile pretty heavy. Theoretically, you could make the desktop "read only," though I haven't done that. Yet. Furthermore, I set the browser cache limit to 20MB. This is also lockable with the Group Policy editor. And -- Thanks be to Zeus or whoever -- we don't use Outlook. Yet, anyway. If there's gonna be Outlook, though, you can point it to another place on the network (or local drive) to store the .pst. Those buggers can get very big. Or, if you have a lot of Outlook junkies, you can run something like Open Exchange and put all that drek on a database server. With these arrangements I've had a minimal amount of trouble. So far. On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:18:50 -0800, Matthew Easton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 08 December 2004 18:19, Alex Satrapa wrote: > > On 9 Dec 2004, at 12:07, Michael Lueck wrote: > > > > > The main disadvantage of the Microsoft Windows approach is the > > bandwidth wasted while people log in and out. > > In my experience, samba networks also have more problem with profiles becoming > corrupted and not being able to copy down from the server or back up to it. > I surmise it is differences in Win32 and Linux with respect to permitted > characters and/or path length. > > > Both methods "need to be fixed" IMHO - a fair middle ground would be to > > mark some portions of the "profile" as "volatile" (and thus they won't > > be copied back to the central store on logout), > Windows and samba already do this -- you have an invisible "Local Settings" > file in your Roaming profile where, for example, Outlook stores its .pst > files. It doesn't get copied up to the server. Of course, I'd much rather > email did get copied to the server -- leave the web browser cache behind > instead. > > > and the actual copying > > back and forth of non-volatile (I'm not going to use the word > > "permanent") data should use an optimised copy - something like rsync, > > which will only copy the changes. > > That would certainly be an improvement. > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. -- H. L. Mencken -- All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. -- H. L. Mencken -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba