Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: logon home/path and %L/%N (was Re:

2001-11-13 Thread Charlie Brady
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Gordon Rowell wrote: > > This Samba parameter simply maps a windows fully > > qualified network path to the windows %HOMESHARE% environment variable. I > > can't seem to map any network share using //servername/sharename. > > Hmm, I seem to remember that network shares coul

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] logon home vs logon path

2001-11-13 Thread Greg Zartman
> Do we have a "Don't cross the streams" issue? > > What if someone moves from Win9x to Win2K - is it safe to use the same > profile directory? Good point!! I don't use roaming profiles often enough to offer a good answer to this. Maybe some of the other folks can offer an opinion. I did cons

[e-smith-devinfo] Re: logon home/path and %L/%N (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 5.1 Alpha - "net use")

2001-11-13 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 07:57:56AM -0800, Greg Zartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On this, can we use slashes, not sloshes: > > > > logon home = //%N/%U/.profiles > > > > or will some windows clients get confused? > I don't think this will work Gordon (at least I couldn't get it to wor

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] logon home vs logon path

2001-11-13 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 08:16:02AM -0800, Greg Zartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [..."R&D OpenCare" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...] > > So, all in all , one could choose to use : > > > > logon home = \\%N\%U\.profile > > logon path = \\%N\%U\.profile > > This seems to make good sense to me. I rea

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] cron.weekly entry seems to be incorrect inSME5.0

2001-11-13 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Greg Zartman wrote: > I was doing some trouble shooting and ran across this entry in cron.weekly: > > exec /sbin/e-smith/events/actions/update-dns > > Taken from the file refresh-ddns. This path to the update-dns script is > incorrect. Is this a bug? Yes, and I believe th

[e-smith-devinfo] Printing with Samba 2.2.2 (was [e-smith-devinfo] e-smith-samba-1.1.0-14 suggestions)

2001-11-13 Thread David Brown
On Monday, November 12, 2001 at 5:09 PM Gordon Rowell wrote: > [...] > > The question I have about e-smith-samba-1.1.0-14 is regarding > how it sets > > the permissions on the directories for the printer drivers. Dan Brown's > > How-To says to run chmod -R 777 on the directories, and I wanted to

[e-smith-devinfo] cron.weekly entry seems to be incorrect in SME5.0

2001-11-13 Thread Greg Zartman
I was doing some trouble shooting and ran across this entry in cron.weekly: exec /sbin/e-smith/events/actions/update-dns Taken from the file refresh-ddns. This path to the update-dns script is incorrect. Is this a bug? Regards, Greg Zartman -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pl

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] logon home/path and %L/%N

2001-11-13 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Greg Zartman wrote: > > So would %L be used in a multi-server environment? > > As Charlie pointed out, this is not a likely setup with "most" SME > configuations. It's not just a multi-server environment we are considering, it's one with a particular split between functions

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] e-smith-samba-1.1.0-14 suggestions

2001-11-13 Thread David Brown
On Monday, November 12, 2001 at 5:09 PM Gordon Rowell wrote: > [...] > > I'm having trouble getting the printing to work right > > under samba 2.2.2, and I didn't know if the permissions was part of the > > problem. > > [...] > > Is it "printing" or installation of printer drivers which is failing

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] logon home vs logon path

2001-11-13 Thread Greg Zartman
> Wow, this topics is still confusing > Just to clearify the contents of this email: > > - subject : Samba as domain-controller on 5.1 alpha (samba 2.2.1a) > - topic: where to put (hidden) roving/roaming user profiles > Yes, this was a very confusing topic, but development is rarely a linear

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] logon home/path and %L/%N (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 5.1 Alpha - "net use")

2001-11-13 Thread Greg Zartman
> So would %L be used in a multi-server environment? As Charlie pointed out, this is not a likely setup with "most" SME configuations. I seems to me that if a person wants to configure samba to run in a non-standard configuration, then it would be best to do it with custom fragments. Regards, G

[e-smith-devinfo] RE: logon home/path and %L/%N (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 5.1 Alpha - "net use")

2001-11-13 Thread Greg Zartman
> > On this, can we use slashes, not sloshes: > > logon home = //%N/%U/.profiles > > or will some windows clients get confused? I don't think this will work Gordon (at least I couldn't get it to work on my Win 2k workstation). This Samba parameter simply maps a windows fully qualified netwo

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] logon home/path and %L/%N

2001-11-13 Thread Greg Zartman
> When would "login server" be different from "this server"? Never, in this > context, I would think, since if we offer login and profile support only > when we expect to be the login server/domain master. > > Does that match your understanding? Charlie, I had a discussion with a couple of guys

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: logon home/path and %L/%N (was Re:

2001-11-13 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Gordon Rowell wrote: > On this, can we use slashes, not sloshes: > > logon home = //%N/%U/.profiles > > or will some windows clients get confused? If they can be used at all, I'd expect them to be translated by samba before any client sees them. So that shouldn't be a

[e-smith-devinfo] logon home vs logon path

2001-11-13 Thread R&D OpenCare
Wow, this topics is still confusing Just to clearify the contents of this email: - subject : Samba as domain-controller on 5.1 alpha (samba 2.2.1a) - topic: where to put (hidden) roving/roaming user profiles Logon home vs logon logon path -- 1) N