On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 11:14, Adam Lang wrote: > Hello, > > I successfully joined an XP machine to my Samba PDC. > > When looking at the profile folder on the samba server for the user (which I > had to create manually. Is there a way this can be done automatically?) I > saw the My Documents folder was copied up. > > I was thinking this was cool because people would have their stuff stored on > the server and wouldn't have to teach them anything different. > > One problem I thought though was if they have like a gigabyte of documents. > Would this mean it would have to download all of that before it would finish > booting? that's true only if you keep my documents in the profile... instead you should redirect my documents to their home directory that way all their docs stay on the server. > > Also, I created a folder in the My Documents folder and copied some files > into it to see if it copied up, it did. I went to delete it and it cleared > out. I logged off and back on and files inside the deleted folder were > gone, but the folders returned. Is this a problem or do I need to fix > something? this won't be a problem if you redirect my documents
> I have no problem going back to a login script to set a home directory for a > mapped drive, but apparently the login scripts for win98 machines aren't > same for winxp (location ways), but I will look into that. you don't need a logon script to do this... just configure samba to do it. with logon drive = H: logon home = \\yourserver\%U brad -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba