HI, I have put the wallpapers found in c:\windows\web\wallpapers into Samba's shared directory. And I point the desktop wallpaper to the Samba shared directory. But it did not work when i tried logging in another machine.
Please help. Any way to copy stuff from Local Settings to Samba? adrian > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 06:01:47PM +0800, Adrian Chow wrote: >> I have configured roaming profile on WIndows Xp client that is connect >> to >> the Samba. Login works fine except that when I change the wallpaper on >> one machine, log off and goes to another machine, the wallpaper was not >> changed on the other one. >> >> Other files created on the desktop are changed. >> >> Can anyone explain or help ? > > Adrian, > > I ran into this too. This is what happens. Say I set my background to be > something OTHER THAN a bitmap like mypic.jpg. XP converts the jpg to a > bitmap and stores the bitmap under "Local Settings" in the profile, which > of course doesn't roam. The simple fix that I've been telling my users is > to first convert their background to a bitmap image and store it on a > network drive, then set your background to that image and your background > roams with you. > > Works for me. > > Nathan > > -- > nre > :wq > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba