Topic: Roaming profiles question

[James Douglas]

in my server-manager panel roaming profiles is disabled but there is a profile directory with everything in it in my home folder. If i log onto another workstation i get an error unable to load profile using local copy instead.

i dont want roaming profiles enabled and tought it wasnt. How do I confirm that it is DISABLED ie edit smb.conf ?

[marcel]

Hoi,
James
If you are connecting from a nt or xp workstation and you are member of a domain
then you are login on to that domain.Normaly the domain controller verified your account.
It good be that you must change your system propertie's from domain to workgroup
on your workstation

[James Douglas]

being part of a domain does not enable roaming profiles, they are completely separate issues...you can have 2000/xp/nt machines in an nt or 2000 domain without having roaming profiles enabled. in fact thats what 99.99% of Windows networks have configured...

my goal here is to have my xp machines in a domain without using roaming profiles. although it says off in server manager it appears to be copying the profile up to the server upon logging off.

anyone...?

[Paul Sahlin]

This issue is reported to the bug section. I discovered the same problem that you have. Strangely it works under version 5.1.2. to disable Roaming Profiles. The versions 5.5 and 5.6 doesn't disable them. I removed the version 5.5 and I now use the version 5.1.2. with great pleasure....

So let's see what the bug section discovers.

Regards, Paul

[Peter Schubert]

Same problem, here a sollution:

You need a custom template to disable the roaming profiles:

- Create a directory:
   /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/smb.conf
- go to this directory
   # cd /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/smb.conf
- create a file 11logonPath
   # pico 11logonPath
- now type this in the editor:
          # Disable roaming profiles
          logon path =
          logon home =
          # End disable roaming profiles
- exit Pico with CTRL-X and confirm writing with "y"
- expand /etc/smb.conf
  #  /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/smb.conf
- restart samba
  # /etc/init.d/smb restart


Now the roaming profiles should be disabled.

[James Douglas]

damn forgot to check the bugs section, but honestly Im surprised there arent more posts on this here!

thx for the tip will try and report back.

[Ben Morrisson]

Tried this fix for same problem and template expands with error but solution works after restarting SMB.

Watch the settings under user profiles on your windows clients. This bug caused the local profiles to be converted to roaming profiles. Return them to local to preserve your local setting otherwise the client creates a new profile lossing all local customisation.

[Marcus Rigby]

I used this fix on my 5.6 box and now the log in script doesn't work, i.e it doesn't map my home drive when I log in, I can still access the server through My Network Places or typing the full UNC address into explorer, but would prefer if home drives were mapped.  Any suggestions?

Thanks
Marcus

[asotelo]

This is a bug from SME 5.5 and SME 5.6. It's been fixed in SME 6.0

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