...and apologies for doing the "reply to sender/reply to list" thing as well. :)
On 28 June 2012 20:15, Ben Metcalfe <bwmetca...@gmail.com> wrote: > "That's the point. I am > pushing the idea that our problem is not using folder redirection and the > Windows guy is pushing the idea that its samba itself." > > Spot-on. > Your windows guy just needs to implement a few AD registry tweaks (see > below etc) to get things working sweetly, and folder redirection (to > MS-Server or samba/linux) is considered to be best-practice in every > microsoft house I've ever come across. No-one uses roaming profiles without > it, unless all their workstations are wired with 10GB ethernet to the most > over-spec'd server I've ever seen, or their users don't actually roam more > than once every six months... > > > On 28 June 2012 20:09, Ben Metcalfe <bwmetca...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Here's a decent summary of roaming profiles on the latest windows >> iterations. >> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848267 >> >> "Branche cache" may also be relevant: >> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831696 >> >> WIthout the original windows admin here to query its difficult to be >> sure, but he might well have been talking about having "offline files" >> enabled on redirected folders attached to roaming profiles, which will >> display an rsync-like behaviour when reconnected. >> "Offline files" works on my illumos-based ZFS/samba NAS (the last time I >> checked) indistinguishably from the way it does against microsoft smb >> shares though, so I can't see any reason why it shouldn't work on linux >> samba... or maybe I'm not testing it rigourously. >> >> >> http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/springboard/archive/2010/04/19/understanding-user-state-virtualization-improvements-in-windows-7.aspx >> >> Here's an old (but still applicable?) HOWTO for enabling Vista's specific >> "offline files" efficiently against samba/linux: >> >> http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2007/03/16/using-offline-files-with-samba-emc-servers-nas-devices.aspx >> YMMV on Windows 7 and 8. >> >> >> On 28 June 2012 16:26, Chris Weiss <cwe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Dave Ewart <da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk> wrote: >>> > On Thursday, 28.06.2012 at 11:07 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: >>> > >>> >> On Thu, 28 Jun 2012, Todor Fassl wrote: >>> >> >Our Windows guy insists samba is slow but I don't believe it. He >>> >> >claims that when you load a roamng profile, Windows downloads only >>> >> >files that have changed and samba downloads everything. But he >>> >> >doesn't know anything about samba and I don't know where he got that >>> >> >from. >>> > >>> > However native speed won't be important if, under Samba, a full roaming >>> > profile is downloaded on each login whereas under Windows an rsync-like >>> > action takes place to only download minimal changes. I don't know >>> > whether that's the case or not, whether it's configurable behaviour >>> > under either Samba or Windows Server, but it's certainly an interesting >>> > point. >>> >>> is it possible that unix file timestamps having a greater precision >>> than ntfs is causing windows to see a "change"? I know rsync has an >>> option to combat this. >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >>> instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >>> >> >> > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
