RE: [Samba] Folder redirection on samba
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Murali krishnan Ganapathy wrote: Policy handling and profile configuration is rather well covered in the new HOWTO that will ship with Samba-3. I would appreciate feedback from people who have reviewed the two (2) chapters on these subjects and any contributions of corrections or additional material you might consider valuable to others. You may obtain the current form of the HOWTO from: http://samba.org/~jht/NT4migration/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf In particular please refer to chapters 21 22. Cheers, John T. Two ways to do it. One is on a per user basis, and the other is through policies. First: Per User --- All that needs to be done is to change one registry key, in HKCU. All other methods essentially do this for you and give you a cleaner interface. I cant remember the registry key to change off the top of my head, but if you want I can find it for you. Second: Policies I know this can surely be done with Group Policies in Win2K/XP. But SAMBA does not support Active Directory Objects yet (needs to serve them up). But NT4 sytle system policies are supported by samba. It just involves placing a NTConfig.pol file in the netlogon share. But I dont know if NT4 System policies allow folder redirection. The way I am planning to use (still experimenting with it), is to use method one (Still dont have a way to generate a NTConfig.pol file, since I only have a Win2K Advanced Server CD and not a NT4 server CD). Basically, we allow the users to create a .windowsrc file in their home directory which is in INI format. Then during logon, as part of the logon script, this file is read, parsed and settings specified there are implemented. Settings include folder redirection and mounting network shares, and hope to add more features eventually. The only problem I have is that: In my case, I want the My Documents redirected to a network share (usually their home directory). The redirection works fine. Windows realises the redirection is in effect and does not download MyDocuments from the profiles directory. But in order to improve network performance (or whatever), it is trying to cache the MyDocuments locally. Since user home directories are typically huge (100MB), it is downloading the entire MyDocuments folder, which is a bad thing. I still need to figure out, how to tell windows programmatically, not to cache MyDocuments. So any changes they make is written to the network share immediately. Even if it means loosing MyDocuments when there is a network outage. Hope this helps. - Murali -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 3:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] Folder redirection on samba hi, how can i set up the folder my documents on clients desktop on my samba pdc? thanks andrea __ Tiscali ADSL a 1 euro al giorno, traffico incluso!e in piu' telefoni gratis. Abbonati entro il 31 maggio, l'attivazione e' gratuita. http://point.tiscali.it/adsl/index.shtml -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Folder redirection on samba
Documentation Comment: In case of NT4 policies, the document describes how to create them, and where to place them (netlogon share) and how it will be used. Is it possible to use Group Policies, with SAMBA 3.0? Can one just create the .adm templates described and drop them some where (SYSVOL share?) so that they automatically come into effect. Since SAMBA 3.0 cannot function as an AD Server (if I understand things correctly), it cannot be used for Group Policy Objects. Is this right? If so, a note to that effect in the documentation would be useful. - Murali John H Terpstra wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2003, Murali krishnan Ganapathy wrote: Policy handling and profile configuration is rather well covered in the new HOWTO that will ship with Samba-3. I would appreciate feedback from people who have reviewed the two (2) chapters on these subjects and any contributions of corrections or additional material you might consider valuable to others. You may obtain the current form of the HOWTO from: http://samba.org/~jht/NT4migration/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf In particular please refer to chapters 21 22. Cheers, John T. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Folder redirection on samba
On Thu, 29 May 2003, ganapathy murali krishnan wrote: Documentation Comment: In case of NT4 policies, the document describes how to create them, and where to place them (netlogon share) and how it will be used. Is it possible to use Group Policies, with SAMBA 3.0? Can one just create the .adm templates described and drop them some where (SYSVOL share?) so that they automatically come into effect. Since SAMBA 3.0 cannot function as an AD Server (if I understand things correctly), it cannot be used for Group Policy Objects. So you create a profile for the group, make it a mandatory, in the user's profile (just as you would for NT4) set the path to the group profile for the user using pdbedit or using the NT4 User Manager for Domains. .adm files are templates for the Group Policy Editor alone. We will have an 'editreg' tool and a 'profiles' - the editreg tool will do what the NT4 Group Policy Editor does, it will create NTConfig.POL files. SYSVOL is a specific Active Directory facility. We need to emulate an Active Directory Controller to ba able to implement the capability to affect Machine Policy Objects and Group Policy Objects. Samba-3 does NOT do that. Is this right? If so, a note to that effect in the documentation would be useful. Send me the update and I will put it in if it makes sense. Thanks for your feedback. - John T. - Murali John H Terpstra wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2003, Murali krishnan Ganapathy wrote: Policy handling and profile configuration is rather well covered in the new HOWTO that will ship with Samba-3. I would appreciate feedback from people who have reviewed the two (2) chapters on these subjects and any contributions of corrections or additional material you might consider valuable to others. You may obtain the current form of the HOWTO from: http://samba.org/~jht/NT4migration/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf In particular please refer to chapters 21 22. Cheers, John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Folder redirection on samba
hi, how can i set up the folder my documents on clients desktop on my samba pdc? thanks andrea __ Tiscali ADSL a 1 euro al giorno, traffico incluso!e in piu' telefoni gratis. Abbonati entro il 31 maggio, l'attivazione e' gratuita. http://point.tiscali.it/adsl/index.shtml -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] Folder redirection on samba
Two ways to do it. One is on a per user basis, and the other is through policies. First: Per User --- All that needs to be done is to change one registry key, in HKCU. All other methods essentially do this for you and give you a cleaner interface. I cant remember the registry key to change off the top of my head, but if you want I can find it for you. Second: Policies I know this can surely be done with Group Policies in Win2K/XP. But SAMBA does not support Active Directory Objects yet (needs to serve them up). But NT4 sytle system policies are supported by samba. It just involves placing a NTConfig.pol file in the netlogon share. But I dont know if NT4 System policies allow folder redirection. The way I am planning to use (still experimenting with it), is to use method one (Still dont have a way to generate a NTConfig.pol file, since I only have a Win2K Advanced Server CD and not a NT4 server CD). Basically, we allow the users to create a .windowsrc file in their home directory which is in INI format. Then during logon, as part of the logon script, this file is read, parsed and settings specified there are implemented. Settings include folder redirection and mounting network shares, and hope to add more features eventually. The only problem I have is that: In my case, I want the My Documents redirected to a network share (usually their home directory). The redirection works fine. Windows realises the redirection is in effect and does not download MyDocuments from the profiles directory. But in order to improve network performance (or whatever), it is trying to cache the MyDocuments locally. Since user home directories are typically huge (100MB), it is downloading the entire MyDocuments folder, which is a bad thing. I still need to figure out, how to tell windows programmatically, not to cache MyDocuments. So any changes they make is written to the network share immediately. Even if it means loosing MyDocuments when there is a network outage. Hope this helps. - Murali -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 3:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] Folder redirection on samba hi, how can i set up the folder my documents on clients desktop on my samba pdc? thanks andrea __ Tiscali ADSL a 1 euro al giorno, traffico incluso!e in piu' telefoni gratis. Abbonati entro il 31 maggio, l'attivazione e' gratuita. http://point.tiscali.it/adsl/index.shtml -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
