[CoLoCo] Samba at Free Horizon Montessori

[David L. Willson]

It will be easier to t-shoot if you say what you're expecting and what you're getting.
My brief, unjustified recommendations will follow:

> know how to create an NT-style profile from scratch, or convert a Win2k3-style 
> profile to a Samba-compatible (NT-style) profile?

Roaming profiles are hard to support.  I recommend strongly against them.  I recommend
just mapping drive-letters and backing up your users' Desktop and Documents folders to
the network by script.  I have a script written, if you'd like to use mine.

The profile's "style" is set by the workstation, not the server.  So, a Win98 profile is
different from a WinXP profile, but a profile is pretty much the same whether it's
stored locally, or on a server of some kind.

> One thing I tried was to copy an existing profile (the contents of 
> E:\profiles\username) on the Win2k3 server that belonged to the domain admin 
> to the relevant directory on the samba server.  This didn't work, probably 
> because the user names are  not the same.  Hey, I didn't really expect it to 
> work, but I wanted to try the simplest possible method.

It's more helpful to use expected and got (or "didn't get") statements here.

> I've been more or less following the directions in O'Reilly's Using Samba, 3rd 
> edition.
> 
> Here's my smb.conf:
> 
> ************************************
> # Samba config file created using SWAT

Your smb.conf looked fine to me, but I generally shy away from SWAT.  Let me suggest a
review of the article below, and I can get with you an evening or two to debug the
roaming profiles if you really want to stick with them.

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_Windows_Profiles

-- David