Here is what I ended up doing and it worked well in most cases.
*Create the new UNIX account and Samba account on the Linux box
*Log into the Client computer with the existing local profile as an account in the Admin List
*Right-Click on my computer, pick the User Profiles tab, select the users local profile and click on the "Copy To" button.
*A dialog box pops up, I typed \\sambaserver\profile\username into the top text box. Then you hit the Copy button twice. The first time it creates the directory, the second time it copies all of the profile to the Samba server.
*Next you have to changes the permissions on the profile in Linux. I telnet to the samba server and change the permissions like so `chown -R username.username /home/samba/profiles/username
So that's essentially what I did. It worked in most cases. One of the users had a profile that kept crashing explorer.exe so I had to manually copy her stuff, but otherwise I was pleased.
A Cline
From: "Owens, Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'A Cline'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Samba] Move existing Local Profile to Roaming
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 19:21:19 -0600
Also try making a roaming profile for them before copying over there old
profile in to the new roaming one?
Which would be ishy is you have a lot of users.
-----Original Message-----
From: A Cline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 7:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Samba] Move existing Local Profile to Roaming
Bob:
Yes, the 20 or so new computers that I have attached to the PDC are all
using Roaming profiles and they work great. Here are the lines from my
smb.conf that you requested.
[global]
logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
[profiles]
path = /home/samba/profiles
guest ok = yes
browseable = no
read only = no
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
share modes = no
My and your lines are very similar at the least. Thanks for any additional
info.
>From: "Owens, Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "'A Cline'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [Samba] Move existing Local Profile to Roaming
>Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:49:15 -0600
>
>Do you have the following?
>
>[global]
># Where to store roving profiles (only for Win95 and WinNT)
># %L substitutes for this servers netbios name, %U is username
># You must uncomment the [Profiles] share below
> logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U
>
>[Profiles]
> path = /data/domain/Profiles/
> browseable = no
> writable = yes
> valid users = @domusers
> create mode = 0770
> directory mode = 0770
> force group = root
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: A Cline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 5:59 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [Samba] Move existing Local Profile to Roaming
>
>
>Hello:
>
>I have a Redhat 7.3 samba server acting as a PDC and running samba
>2.2.3a-13.
>
>I have a few computers with extensive existing profiles and I want to know
>if anyone knows of a good way to get the COMPLETE profile to the roaming
>profile on the samba server. Every manual copy way that I have tried thus
>far has failed miserably.
>
>Thanks,
>
>A Cline
>
>
>
>
>
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