On Mon, 09 Jun 2008, Gary Dale might have said:
> Leandro Tracchia wrote:
> >this may sound like a basic question but i'm not entirely sure how
> >roaming profiles work so i'm not sure if i have it working properly. i
> >created a local user account on a client machine and then joined that
> >machine to the domain. i then logged in as domain administrator and
> >copied the user profile from the local machine to the server. if i
> >login with this user account (now the domain account) from another
> >machine, i can see the files that are supposed to be there but
> >everything else like the wallpaper, shortcuts, and windows styles are
> >not correct.... is roaming profiles supposed to work like this??? or
> >are you supposed to have the EXACT user settings no matter what
> >machine you log onto???
> >
>
> There is no need to copy the profile to the server. This happens
> automatically IF you've done the configuration correctly. I believe all
> you need is to have something like this in your smb.conf:
>
> [profiles]
> path = /home/samba/profiles
> read only = No
>
> where path is the parent directory for your profiles.
>
> I think John Drescher may be incorrect in his description of shortcuts.
> The shortcuts are normally relative to the machine, so you need to
> install the application in the same path on all the machines you wish to
> run it on. If the application hasn't been installed on a machine, you
> can't run it.
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My current settings for profiles are:
[profiles]
comment = Roaming User Profiles
path = /etc/samba/profiles
browseable = Yes
writable = Yes
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
hide files =
/DESKTOP.INI/Desktop.ini/desktop.ini/ntuser.ini/NTUSER.*/Thumbs.db/
#store dos attributes = Yes
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
#printable = no
csc policy = disable
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