The only catch I have found in all the solutions is after you move a
profile to the samba server using the administrative(root) user, is that
the owner and group is "root" and you have to change ownership.
Otherwise, everything worked fine.
Paul Gienger wrote:
I do this pretty regularly ... I just copy the desktop, mydocuments,
cookies, favorites. The only thing I tend to loose is the desktop
shortcut for the quick launch tool bar.... I can never get it back
either .. been looking for it for years now...
Along with that you will also lose every possible application specific
setting that was stored in the user's portion of the registry. In my
case you would also lose Mozilla profiles, gaim history, and a whole
host of other things scattered about.
BTW, in my particular case, using XP, the quick launch was in
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application
Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
profiles. When I move a user now, it makes a new desktop. I want
to use the user's local desktop, just transfer it to the server.
any ideas?
I've posted this solution several times and never heard anyone say
"that really sucks because..." so I'll post it again. Note that this
is a bit tedious, but then again, your users will probably whine that
it's also tedious for them to set everything back up again, so the
choice is yours on who gets the pain of creating the settings.
When you've got some profile you need to migrate from one setting to
another, that being from a local-on-the-machine/non-domain profile to
a roaming/domain profile, or moving a profile from one domain to
another, etc. you can do the following.
before starting, make sure that you don't have any profile on the
server with the username in question and you aren't using a network
Default User.
1.Reboot to clear up any locks that may be on the profile's registry.
2. Log in as administrator (doesn't really matter which but I usually
use local)
3. Find the user's profile you want to base the new user off of and
move it to some safe/hidden location. You do this mainly so that if
the usernames match you don't end up with a user.domain profile
directory.
4. Move the default user directory (it will be hidden) to a location
not in Docs and Settings
5. Copy the old user profile back to Docs and Settings and then rename
it Default User
6. Log in as the user on this workstation. It may take a while to do
the 'loading your personal settings' step depending on how large the
old profile is.
7. Reboot and log back in as admin
8. Delete the new 'Default User' and move the original one back to
where it was.
You can add tweaks such as changing the roaming to local profile and
such as you see fit. This may also work using a network Default user
instead of the local one if you're so inclined, but I haven't tried.
There are some variations that may need to be done if you've got some
more complex situations, but hopefully this is close enough to get you
going.
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