[Samba] roaming profiles

Gary Dale wrote:
>The netlogon share is, AFAIK, used if you want to provide scripts to be
>run at logon. It's not essential for roaming profiles but it's also
>probably not large so there is no point in not having one. Corporate
>types love being able to control end user's using netlogon scripts.

>Profiles are a copy of your Windows account profile that gets synched
>when you log on or off a Windows computer. The problem is, if you have
>lots of files in My Documents, it can get large and synching can take a
>long time.

>AFAIK there is no need for them both to be on the same machine but I've
>never tried doing it any other way. Not sure how to specify them on
>different machines. You can put your netlogon and profiles anywhere.

But can I stay only with this entries in smb.conf
[global]
.....
logon script = scripts\logon.bat
logon home = \\OXHILL\%U
logon path = \\OXHILL\%U\.profiles
logon drive = H:

and get rid of [profile] share at all on pdc or member.

>The path you specify in your smb.conf above puts it in a hidden (.profile)
>directory in a user's Unix home folder. However, they may not have one.

it is created automatically by scripts. But I only need to configure samba to
work correctly in this layout.

>I keep mine in
>/home/samba/netlogon and /home/samba/profiles/%U myself. You can still
>share that for each user but it keeps your /home directory smaller -
>only Unix accounts & samba show up directly in /home.

thanks

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Wojciech Giel wrote:
> Gary Dale wrote:
>
>> The netlogon share is, AFAIK, used if you want to provide scripts to be
>> run at logon. It's not essential for roaming profiles but it's also
>> probably not large so there is no point in not having one. Corporate
>> types love being able to control end user's using netlogon scripts.
>>
>
>
>> Profiles are a copy of your Windows account profile that gets synched
>> when you log on or off a Windows computer. The problem is, if you have
>> lots of files in My Documents, it can get large and synching can take a
>> long time.
>>
>
>
>> AFAIK there is no need for them both to be on the same machine but I've
>> never tried doing it any other way. Not sure how to specify them on
>> different machines. You can put your netlogon and profiles anywhere.
>>
>
> But can I stay only with this entries in smb.conf
> [global]
> .....
> logon script = scripts\logon.bat
> logon home = \\OXHILL\%U
> logon path = \\OXHILL\%U\.profiles
> logon drive = H:
>
> and get rid of [profile] share at all on pdc or member.
>
I'm not sure what the point would be. Scripts are small files so even
across a slow connection, they will download quickly. The profiles, on
the other hand, can be large and synching them is slow. Moreover, having
a copy on a server eliminates the need to back up workstations (although
if users have a lot of files in their profiles, the synching can be slow
- try to get them to keep files on server shares). With the profiles
stored on a server, you just need to backup the server.

>
>> The path you specify in your smb.conf above puts it in a hidden (.profile)
>> directory in a user's Unix home folder. However, they may not have one.
>>
>
> it is created automatically by scripts. But I only need to configure samba to
> work correctly in this layout.
>
If your users all have Unix accounts, but this is not necessary for
Samba to work. However, it's no big deal to put the profiles elsewhere.
Your choice.

>
>> I keep mine in
>> /home/samba/netlogon and /home/samba/profiles/%U myself. You can still
>> share that for each user but it keeps your /home directory smaller -
>> only Unix accounts & samba show up directly in /home.
>>
>
> thanks
>
>

Good luck!
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