>> We were striving for live network stored access - no replication - have I
>> missed something else?
>I think so, this sounds exactly like how *roaming* profiles behave.
>Use a policy to redirect "My Documents" out of the profile an to a
>'real' share somewhere like \\{servername}\homedir. The
We were striving for live network stored access - no replication - have I
missed something else?
Oh, I guess I misunderstood. That's not the way Windows works by
default. Windows copies all of the profile locally then does all file
access on the client. At logoff that is copied back to the
> [Mitch says:] D'oh! Ok- I've set that, still seeing the problem though -
> without the error message (yes I was smart enough to restart smbd ;-)
Actually, changes to the smb.conf become live withing a few minutes,
you don't need to restart.
> When the user logs on, the profile folder is created
[Paul says:] Perhaps you should try messing with this setting in the share
you're having problems with. From the man page:
[Mitch says:] D'oh! Ok- I've set that, still seeing the problem though -
without the error message (yes I was smart enough to restart smbd ;-)
When the user logs on, the prof