RE: [Samba] Roaming profiles with Samba3
Hi, Note to Roaming profile that it requires a stable and relatively fast connection to the server since it retrieve and synchronize quite a lot of stuff everytime you login or logout, unluckily our organization are separated in a few buildings and we're running over a wireless connection which couldn't afford this luxury :P For the time-control of the opening share, i don't think samba itself provide this function but since it reloads smb.conf relatively fast every time it changes (i've read somewhere that it reloads it every 60secs if changes are made, and my personal testing shows it reloads much faster than this) I would suggest you could simply use crontab and rotate different smb.conf from time to time, and samba would refresh itself with the new config without restarting the samba daemon. If you couldn't wait, you could use 'smbcontrol force-reload' to manually reload the smb.conf. And finally disconnect the share with 'smbcontrol smbd close-share [share-name]' For drive disconnection it is not instant, i have no idea why, but there's some time between you fire the 'smbcontrol smbd close-share [share-name]' command and windows detecting the share is gone, the time gap is about 10 min at my scenario, but it is sufficient for my case because i don't actually need so fine-grained time-control, a few minutes delay on disconnection is acceptable. For share activation, it is rather easy as once the smb.conf is changed, windows client could see that share almost instantly. Anyone has better solution? Cheers, Him (P.S. it looks that you have to issue 'smbcontrol [pid] close-share [share-name]' to all active smbd process, i tried 'smbcontrol smbd close-share [share-name]' but it isn't working as expected, but once i use a script to get the list of smbd process id and issue smbcontrol to everyone of them , the share successfully disconnects after a few minutes, i'm already happy with the outcome tho) >= Original Message From Jason Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >Good morning everyone. > >I wanted to ask the people on this list who are currently using roaming >profiles with samba 3 how it is working? I worked a little with roaming >profiles with 2.2.8a, but it was not working as well as I wanted it to and >im hoping that samba 3 roaming profiles are working pretty well. > >Our network here is really calling for roaming profiles to be a major >option here. Our CEO wants the ability for users to be able to log into any >terminal on the network with their username and password...roaming profiles >is what im hoping to use here. > >Im setting up a test box here, but have not yet had time to test roaming >profiles. >WIth that in mind, anyone care to share how roaming profiles are working? >Any tips or suggestions on ways to improve roaming profiles on my end? > >Lastly, is it possible to setup a hours of operations for shares on samba? >For example, maybe you only want shares to be available during buisness >hours and closed on the weekends. Is there a way to do that with samba, or >would you need to use something like the poledit utility? > >I appreciate everyones feedback and help. > >Jason > >-- >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
Re: [Samba] Roaming profiles with Samba3
Roaming profiles are not a function of a domain controller really. The only thing the PDC is responsible for is handing the PATH of the profile off to Windows. From there Windows can take over and royally fuck it up to no end. Problems with roaming profiles: 1. If any portion breaks (incorrect permissions on a single file in their start menu), the entire profile load aborts, and the user uses a temporary profile. 2. They merge... incorrectly. If you have a person log onto two computers, both computers download the profile, and make modifications, and then both upload again when you log off. Some files are overwritten from each copy, usually creating a mess. 3. When logging off, sometimes the profile unload. Reasons vary. Usually it's a legitimate reasons: server is slow, etc. Either way, you have modifications locally which haven't been synched remotely... or of which half have been synched. Logging onto aanother computer loads this broken copy. Logging off unloads, and replaces it on the server. Logging onto the original box creates a merge of the local and remote profiles: usually breaking stuff. They work if you can guarentee the following: Nobody logs on twice. The server is up all the time. Nobody touches the files. None of this is Samba's fault. On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 12:44, Jason Williams wrote: > Good morning everyone. > > I wanted to ask the people on this list who are currently using roaming > profiles with samba 3 how it is working? I worked a little with roaming > profiles with 2.2.8a, but it was not working as well as I wanted it to and > im hoping that samba 3 roaming profiles are working pretty well. > > Our network here is really calling for roaming profiles to be a major > option here. Our CEO wants the ability for users to be able to log into any > terminal on the network with their username and password...roaming profiles > is what im hoping to use here. > > Im setting up a test box here, but have not yet had time to test roaming > profiles. > WIth that in mind, anyone care to share how roaming profiles are working? > Any tips or suggestions on ways to improve roaming profiles on my end? > > Lastly, is it possible to setup a hours of operations for shares on samba? > For example, maybe you only want shares to be available during buisness > hours and closed on the weekends. Is there a way to do that with samba, or > would you need to use something like the poledit utility? > > I appreciate everyones feedback and help. > > Jason -- Jerry Haltom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Feedback Plus, Inc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Roaming profiles with Samba3
Good morning everyone. I wanted to ask the people on this list who are currently using roaming profiles with samba 3 how it is working? I worked a little with roaming profiles with 2.2.8a, but it was not working as well as I wanted it to and im hoping that samba 3 roaming profiles are working pretty well. Our network here is really calling for roaming profiles to be a major option here. Our CEO wants the ability for users to be able to log into any terminal on the network with their username and password...roaming profiles is what im hoping to use here. Im setting up a test box here, but have not yet had time to test roaming profiles. WIth that in mind, anyone care to share how roaming profiles are working? Any tips or suggestions on ways to improve roaming profiles on my end? Lastly, is it possible to setup a hours of operations for shares on samba? For example, maybe you only want shares to be available during buisness hours and closed on the weekends. Is there a way to do that with samba, or would you need to use something like the poledit utility? I appreciate everyones feedback and help. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
