[K12OSN] YAHOO! Roaming profiles fixed in smbldap-installer...now admin quirks
Tom Astle
tom at pcc.com
Mon Feb 7 21:19:00 UTC 2005
David Trask wrote:
> Yahoo! I figured out the roaming profiles issue (I hate when they change
> something and don't tell me) ;-) It's a simple matter of changing the
> Samba config for homes and profiles in smbldap.conf to contain %U
> (username variable) at the end. Evidently that's neccessary in the new
> version, however was not necessary in 0.84 of smbldap-tools. So....I just
> tried it and it works....so that's hurdle #1....now to look at some
Great work. I noticed that last week when as I was correspoding with the
group and just changed it in smbldap.conf. But, I was able to copy
a roaming profile straight into /opt/samba/profiles before that, which
it sounds like you were not able to do.
Is there anything else you did or did not do ( like upgrading packages)?
> Administrator user quirkiness. Matt and I are trying to determine if it's
> possible to go back to the old method and use root instead of
> Administrator. One idea is instead of running simple smbldap-populate
> rather to run smbldap-populate -a root and see if that elimnates the
> need for the Administrator user. Dunno, but will report. As you can tell
> the smbldap-installer script is "sort of" ready for production servers,
> but as Eric says....if it breaks you get to keep both pieces. Mid-year
> probably isn't the best time to bring a server like this online
> anyway...right? ;-) Thus at this point everything works, but we're
> trying to solve something that MAY be an issue with administrator user.
>
> PS....Matt will post a new version with the fix soon, but if you want to
> fix it yourself....go into the templates directory in smbldap-installer
> and edit smbldap.conf.....and fix these lines
>
> in smbldap.conf.....scroll down to
> the Samba section and add %u to the end of the home and profiles defs as
> shown in the commented examples just above them.
>
> # The UNC path to home drives location (%U username substitution)
> # Ex: \\My-PDC-netbios-name\homes\%U
> # Just set it to a null string if you want to use the smb.conf 'logon home'
> # directive and/or disable roaming profiles
> userSmbHome="\\NETBIOSNAME_KEY\homes" (this is the bad line...add the
> \%U)
>
> # The UNC path to profiles locations (%U username substitution)
> # Ex: \\My-PDC-netbios-name\profiles\%U
> # Just set it to a null string if you want to use the smb.conf 'logon path'
> # directive and/or disable roaming profiles
> userProfile="\\NETBIOSNAME_KEY\profiles" (this is the bad line...add the
> \%U)
>
>
> EXAMPLE:
>
> userSmbHome="\\NETBIOSNAME_KEY\homes\%U"
> userProfile="\\NETBIOSNAME_KEY\profiles\%U"
>
> David N. Trask
> Technology Teacher/Coordinator
> Vassalboro Community School
> dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
> (207)923-3100
>
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