Server Gremlin wrote: > Eric Feldhusen, you've pretty much convinced me that best practice is > having profiles stored in one place, and home folders in another. But > I'm still curious if you have also experienced these problems even with > such a configuration. Either way, I think the merits of such a > configuration are clear; I just wonder if I can expect even these > problems to go away, or if I shouldn't get my hopes up quite that much.
At the moment, I'd have to say I'm just "channeling" the advice of the Samba team and their postings on the email lists roaming profiles, since their advice is straightforward, it's just the listening part I've had to work for. Yes, with the profiles stored under a "Profiles" share, I have problems with broken profiles, but much less, and of the times I'm working through my head to remember, I "think" most of those were problems with the workstation configuration, bad Windows XP install, user assisted us by installing spyware/virii, wrong network drivers detected and installed from Windows update, etc... I've been going back through our RT system and I had forgot we have 4 "types" of samba file/print doing PDC control. We have RHEL4 servers, and there's two types of file system's, those with acl and user attribute and those with no acl or user attributes on. Then, each of those groups are split again with profiles in user home and profiles in profile share. Looking at our support tickets, our least problems go from the systems with acl/user attribute and profiles shares to systems with acl/user attributes and profiles in home directories to systems with no acl/user attributes and profiles to finally, systems with no acl/user attributes and no profile shares. So, to make an executive summary at the end, basically I've done what has been documented in the official documentation and suggested on the email lists by Samba team members. Off-topic, the question on why aren't all our systems quite the same? I had to sneak file system acl's, user attribute's and profiles shares onto a couple of servers, because I was adamant from what I had read on the samba lists was that separate profile shares, and acl/user attribute would give us the best ability to support our windows clients. Not quite professional to sneak around my co-worker's back, but... Eric -- Eric Feldhusen Network Administrator http://www.remc1.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 270 (906) 482-4520 x239 809 Hecla St (906) 482-5031 fax Hancock, MI 49930 (906) 370 6202 mobile -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
