Topic: Win95/98 roaming profiles problem

[Zig]

The problem is they aren't roaming. Did I need to set the option in Passwords from the Control Panel to "Users can customize..." or do I need to do something via the server, other than turn the roaming option on?

[Jonathan]

Hi Zig,

I have no experience with using roaming profiles however a quick browse on the net gave me the following pages:

http://de.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN1542

Another page:

http://citv.unl.edu/linux/LinuxPresentation.html

Somehere halfway it has a step-by-step instruction what to do. I'm not sure thsi works on the SME servers tough.

Good luck!

Jonathan

[Geert Jansen]

You have to enable your 95/98 clients to store usersettings seperately. You can switch this on/off in control pannel, passwords. There you can tell windoze to store preferences en settings per user.

When you have your 9x clients set to this and have switched on 'use roaming profiles'  in the SME server control, then at logon the profile 'roams' as good as possibel under 9x. The profiles will be stored locally in windows\profiles and on the SME in the home/._winprofile directories. At logon and logoff a progressbar indicates how long you still will have to wait untill windows finishes pushing your latest settings, docs, ie-cache etc. to and from your SME.

But consider upgrading your workstations to NT workstations at the least. It gives you less hassle, better maintainable domains, happier users....

Sqlerror

[Zig]

Thanks for the info, I'll have a play & see how it goes. I'll let you know how I get on

Anything is an improvement to their current setup - peer to peer, students files have the habit of going missing from their hard drives!