On Mon, 18 Nov 2003, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 05:56, John H Terpstra wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Jeff Gardiner wrote: > > > > > QUESTION > > > My question therefore is this - I have multiple /home/subdomain directories, > > > like > > > /home/disk1 > > > /home/disk2 > > > /home/backupdisk3b ... etc > > > > > > How do I store the profile in the users home dir. My rationale is that as all > > > of my OSX users, and Unix/Linux users have to adhere to a quota - I'd rather > > > force my windows users to adhere to the same quota by storing their profile > > > in /home/disk?/user/profile and I could do that using \\%L\%U\profile. Now > > > one solution is to apply the quote to say /var/lib/samba/profile/%U but I'd > > > rather keep the profile in or off of the home dir anyway. > > > > > > resolving /home/disk?/user/profil using Unix path names is difficult because I > > > have so many disks with home dirs. > > > > > > BTW I've tried: > > > path = ~%U/profile > > > > You could try: > > > > path = %H/profile > > What's wrong with not having a [profile] share at all, and instead using > the [homes] share, and a profile subdirectory? > > This has the advantage that windows knows they are different files for > each user, and will not attempt to 'optimise' the file locking between > users (remember, MS has a strictly one-to-one mapping between shares and > real disk paths). > > > > > > > hoping that ~user would resolve correctly. It didn't seem to work. > > > > The problem is that the profile handling may do some anonymous file access > > to the Windows users' profile. This may fail if you store the profile in > > the home directory and 'others' do not have access rights to this location > > on disk. > > I know this happens with netlogon - but have you really seen it with > profiles?
Yes. With Win2K Pro clients. In the final stages of writing the profile to the server, only when the profile existed before login. I have not seen this with XPPro though. - John T. > > Andrew Bartlett > > -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
