On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 17:37 +0100, steve wrote: > On 30/11/11 16:40, Matthieu Patou wrote: > > Matthieu, > > On 30/11/2011 08:09, steve wrote: > >> Yep. I realise the 'alphaness' of Samba 4 but I think I am not alone > >> with my issue. I think I should be easy to fix now before it goes beta. > > Certainly true, why not trying to start working on solution on your own, > > by doing the first move you have much more insurance that someone else > > will help you to make it good for master tree. > Well, I'm no developer and only have an old laptop running from a usb > memory stick for testing but I've made a start by adding a home > directory attribute to Samba 4 user database using phpldapadmin. But now > I'm stuck since I don't know where or how the roaming profiles are > stored. In Samba 3 there were stored in the /home of the user.
The statement "In Samba 3 there were stored in the /home of the user" is false. They are stored where they are configured to be stored; we do not store profiles in home directories [and generall i think that is a bad idea]. Samba4 provisions a shared volume for storing a user's roaming profile. By default something like - > With AD > it seems that they are all be saved in a [profiles] share. That bit I > think I understand so I think the solution to single sign on with Samba > 4 would be linking the roaming profile to a users /home folder. Or make > the profiles share subfolder the /home folder for Linux. With Samba3 and > LDAP, all this was centralised and easy to administer. In openSUSE, YAST > would create an LDAP user for you and give him the Samba attributes he > needed. It even created his home folder too. It was simple for a linux > user to logon to windows and vica versa. Samba 4 takes away this > centralisation. It also has the inconvenience of having to use windows > to administer the Samba server. > > I feel that Samba dev's have forgotten that Linux clients are just as > important as windows clients in the network. They seem to think that > Linux is only ever used as a server and clients are only ever windows 7! > > Another bit I don't get is where is a file that is created on a windows > client is stored on the Samba server? The documentation is not clear > here. As basic as that. > > Does any of this make sense? > > Cheers > Steve. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba