[WBEL-users] Roaming profiles

[Jan-Albert van Ree]

On Tuesday 09 November 2004 19:25, Tom Kovalcik wrote:

> I am using roaming profiles with Win2K machines, Redhat 9 Samba 2.2.7. I
> am holding off updating to WB and Samba 3 and LDAP until next summer. I
> found two problems. First, large home directories take a long time to
> load. The temporary internet files seem to be the biggest culprit. I do
> not have a good fix for this one. Second, by default Win2K keeps a copy
> of the profile on the local computer. This is good if the user uses that
> computer almost exclusively, as the data is available even if the domain
> server is down or unreachable. In the computer lab however where many
> different people log into the computers and students are using several
> different computers, the disks start to fill up with these copied
> profiles. I found a registry setting that deletes the stored profile on
> the local computer and that has been working well. I can send it along if
> you want.

Could you please post the key here? I would love to know how you solved 
this, and I'm sure it would benefit others too (the list is keyword 
searcheable ;) )

> Other problems that I am dealing with include permission issues on some
> programs and users knowing the difference between saving files on the
> local drive as opposed to the domain server. I am hoping Samba 3 will
> help with the permission problems.

What sort of permission problems?
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