Re: [Samba] Samba PDC and big files

2010-06-30 Thread Linda W

Pedro Rafael Alves Simoes wrote:

I'm trying to setup a PDC with Samba, but I have the known problem of the
roaming profiles: big files.
Could someone give me some lights in how I can circumvent this problem?


Would quota's help?  


Limit their space in their profiles and they'll manage the
problem ?  



Folder redirection, as someone else mentioned -- put
their desktop in drive H:\share.  


Might be able to CSC (ClientSideCaching) to speed up
access to their desktop and such...


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[Samba] Samba PDC and big files

2010-06-24 Thread Pedro Rafael Alves Simoes
Hello,

I'm trying to setup a PDC with Samba, but I have the known problem of the
roaming profiles: big files. I think it's difficult to guarantee that a
inexperienced user will copy is downloaded files, documents, or whatever,
to a H:\ share instead of is handy desktop. Other problem is the files of
Outlook or Thunderbird that can get big. The goal is to avoid email
configuration each time the user changes to another workstation, so I can't
configure the email client to store the files locally on the workstation.

Could someone give me some lights in how I can circumvent this problem?

Thanks.
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Re: [Samba] Samba PDC and big files

2010-06-24 Thread tms3







--- Original message ---
Subject: [Samba] Samba PDC and big files
From: Pedro Rafael Alves Simoes pedro.a.sim...@gmail.com
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Date: Thursday, 24/06/2010  5:03 AM

Hello,

I'm trying to setup a PDC with Samba, but I have the known problem of 
the
roaming profiles: big files. I think it's difficult to guarantee that 
a
inexperienced user will copy is downloaded files, documents, or 
whatever,
to a H:\ share instead of is handy desktop. Other problem is the files 
of

Outlook or Thunderbird that can get big. The goal is to avoid email
configuration each time the user changes to another workstation, so I 
can't
configure the email client to store the files locally on the 
workstation.


Could someone give me some lights in how I can circumvent this 
problem?


BOFH's Guide to Electrified Keyboards:  101 Tips and tricks to train 
your users.


Cheers,

TMS III

P.S. for email imap is a good idea.




Thanks.
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Re: [Samba] Samba PDC and big files

2010-06-24 Thread John H Terpstra
On 06/24/2010 07:04 AM, Pedro Rafael Alves Simoes wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I'm trying to setup a PDC with Samba, but I have the known problem of the
 roaming profiles: big files. I think it's difficult to guarantee that a
 inexperienced user will copy is downloaded files, documents, or whatever,
 to a H:\ share instead of is handy desktop. Other problem is the files of
 Outlook or Thunderbird that can get big. The goal is to avoid email
 configuration each time the user changes to another workstation, so I can't
 configure the email client to store the files locally on the workstation.
 
 Could someone give me some lights in how I can circumvent this problem?
 
 Thanks.

You need folder redirection.  Read chapter 5 of my book
Samba3-ByExample http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-ByExample.pdf

- John T.
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Re: [Samba] Samba PDC and big files

2010-06-24 Thread Carl Werner

Roaming profiles with folder redirection...

Regards

Carl



t...@tms3.com wrote:







--- Original message ---
Subject: [Samba] Samba PDC and big files
From: Pedro Rafael Alves Simoes pedro.a.sim...@gmail.com
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Date: Thursday, 24/06/2010  5:03 AM

Hello,

I'm trying to setup a PDC with Samba, but I have the known problem of 
the

roaming profiles: big files. I think it's difficult to guarantee that a
inexperienced user will copy is downloaded files, documents, or 
whatever,
to a H:\ share instead of is handy desktop. Other problem is the 
files of

Outlook or Thunderbird that can get big. The goal is to avoid email
configuration each time the user changes to another workstation, so I 
can't
configure the email client to store the files locally on the 
workstation.


Could someone give me some lights in how I can circumvent this problem?


BOFH's Guide to Electrified Keyboards:  101 Tips and tricks to train 
your users.


Cheers,

TMS III

P.S. for email imap is a good idea.




Thanks.
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Re: [Samba] Samba PDC and big files

2010-06-24 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Pedro Rafael Alves Simoes
pedro.a.sim...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,

 I'm trying to setup a PDC with Samba, but I have the known problem of the
 roaming profiles: big files. I think it's difficult to guarantee that a
 inexperienced user will copy is downloaded files, documents, or whatever,
 to a H:\ share instead of is handy desktop. Other problem is the files of
 Outlook or Thunderbird that can get big. The goal is to avoid email
 configuration each time the user changes to another workstation, so I can't
 configure the email client to store the files locally on the workstation.

1. Do not store mail locally, you will lose mail if you do. Use a
central imap server for instance, it's also much easier for backups;

2. I set the user's desktop to readonly with cacls in the logon
scripts, problem solved (get yourself management's approval before you
try this, explain why it is necessary). If they do not want to listen
to you then ...

3. use folder redirection. This is harder to do in a pure samba 3
environment than in AD, but it is certainly doable. Soon, with samba 4
we will have all the group policy goodies :-)

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