I'm in a testing environement with a Samba server setup as a PDC with some
share (netlogon, profiles) to support roaming profile. My "smb.conf" file
contain the good configuration parameters for "logon path" and "logon home"
etc ..
For my roaming profile, I setup a Folder redirection using the
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders" registery key. I modify the value of AppData, Cookies,
Desktop, Favorites, My Pictures, Personal. Every folder are redirect to the
network share with %LOGONSERVER% and %USERNAME% variable. There is no
problem with the redirection, when I connect every thing are correctly
redirect.
why did you do that?
If you don't redefine default locations of user's shell folders they
will normally
be part of your profile and would be stored on the server
if roaming profiles are not disabled.
It is generally not a very good idea to manipulate registries.
But if you have a compelling reason to relocate user's shell folders to a
network drive, then use your home directory for that instead of profile.
For example, if I create a file named "textfile.txt" on my desktop, I see it
on the shared folder. (I do a "ls" command with ssh directly on the server
to be sure). I can add, remove, edit file on the desktop and every thing are
OK.
The problem come when I logout The window client do some sort of
synchronization of a local folder with the shared folder. For example,
C:\Documents and Seetings\admin\Desktop\ with
\\MyServer\profiles\admin\Desktop. I fact, it's not a synchronization, it's
just delete the shared folder and replace it by the content of the local
folder. The result is that every modification done on the desktop (that are
redirected) are lost at the logout.
I believe that's how it's supposed to work.
Purge the old profile and store the current one in its place.
If you don't want it to be overwritten relocate it somewhere else.
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