[Samba] PDC + BDC + Roaming Profiles

2011-07-14 Thread J. Echter 

Hi,

i have a LDAP Master / Slave setup, but my roaming profiles are lying on 
the PDC.


Whats the best method to keep the profiles in sync? Or should i use 
another FileServer for the profiles?


what do i have to check in smb.conf for having profiles on a different 
machine? do i also need to move the netlogon dir?


cheers

juergen
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Re: [Samba] PDC + BDC + Roaming Profiles

2011-07-14 Thread Gaiseric Vandal 

On 07/14/2011 03:53 AM, J. Echter wrote:

Hi,

i have a LDAP Master / Slave setup, but my roaming profiles are lying 
on the PDC.


Whats the best method to keep the profiles in sync? Or should i use 
another FileServer for the profiles?


what do i have to check in smb.conf for having profiles on a different 
machine? do i also need to move the netlogon dir?


cheers

juergen



Caveat-  I don't currently  use roaming profiles.   I believe however 
that a user will only have one network directory for his or her roaming 
profile.Roaming profiles will sync between the user's current PC and 
the server, but not server-to-server.


According to man pdbedit you can set the profile for each user.

Profile Path:   \\BERSERKER\profile

Man page for smb.conf shows

logon path = \\PROFILESERVER\PROFILE\%U


I am guessing that the per user settings overrides the server default 
if you did not want all the roaming profiles on a single server.You 
may not want profiles on your PDC if you want to minimize network 
traffic or disk usage.


Each DC must have a netlogon directory.  The member servers do not. 
You do need to make sure the login scripts are the same on each DC.

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Re: [Samba] PDC + BDC + Roaming Profiles

2011-07-14 Thread John Drescher 
 Whats the best method to keep the profiles in sync? Or should i use another
 FileServer for the profiles?


I have always done that. There are no file shares on my PDC or BDCs.

John
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Re: [Samba] PDC + BDC + Roaming Profiles

2011-07-14 Thread J. Echter 

Am 14.07.2011 16:09, schrieb John Drescher:

Whats the best method to keep the profiles in sync? Or should i use another
FileServer for the profiles?


I have always done that. There are no file shares on my PDC or BDCs.

John
i'm thinking bout using DRBD to have the files sync. i know i can't 
access them from both machines at the same time, but i would be up and 
running faster than setting up a new box.


not a good idea?
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