[K12OSN] Active Directory - SMB/LDAP Switch

Jason Ingalls jingalls at ellsworthschools.org
Wed Jul 27 13:00:30 UTC 2005


I found that everything works better when I tell samba on the PDC to act as a
wins server, and then in my DHCP set my samba PDC as the primary WINS server
for all clients. Not sure if this is your problem or not, just throwing it out
there.


-- 
Jason Ingalls
Ellsworth School Department
IT Specialist
207-667-4722 Ext. 5529
jingalls (at) ellsworthschools.org


Quoting Mark Gumprecht <gumprechtm at msln.net>:

> Ia few issues I've run into
> Changing the domain to logon to shows a box that says "creating domain
> list please wait" I have to ctl+alt+del to get past it
> and
> Logons are forever, Assuming my DNS is not right
> Any suggestions?
> Mark
>
> Brian Chivers wrote:
>
>> Kevin Verheyen wrote:
>>
>>> I would be interested too in looking into these's reg files :-)
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>
>>> Op 27-jul-05, om 13:02 heeft Brian Chivers het volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Mark Gumprecht wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Jason Ingalls wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Perhaps the most important lesson we learned was that the profile
>>>>>> directory and
>>>>>> home directory MUST be different! What we decided to do was use
>>>>>> roaming
>>>>>> profiles, but exclude the Desktop and My Documents directories
>>>>>> from roaming to
>>>>>> cut down on logon/logoff time (by merging a .reg file via logon
>>>>>> script). We
>>>>>> instead chose to use folder redirection (by merging a .reg file
>>>>>> via logon
>>>>>> script) for those two folders. We thought (wrongly) that since
>>>>>> these folders
>>>>>> would be exluded from roaming the redirected folders could live
>>>>>> amongst the the
>>>>>> other profile directories. What this resulted in was files that
>>>>>> would randomly
>>>>>> disappear from the Desktop and My Documents folders. Ultimately
>>>>>> we stuck with
>>>>>> using folder redirection, but we redirected them to the home
>>>>>> directory and put
>>>>>> the profiles in /home/profiles/username. This made me happier
>>>>>> than putting the
>>>>>> profiles in the default location because we have a large
>>>>>> partition for /home.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have a howto on redirect or a url?
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Mark
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Which bit you do want to know to do.
>>>>
>>>> I can send you our reg files that I use to redirect My Doc's to
>>>> there home drives
>>>>
>>>> Brian
>>>>
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>>
>>
>> Just looked through what my login script etc actually do and it's not
>> a reg entry that alter the My Doc's it's actually my KIX login script
>> that alters the location.
>>
>> I can let you all have this if you like but looking at it the reg hive
>> below is what it alters. If you look at the section "Personal" it is
>> pointed to p:\\ which is the drive I map for the users home dir. If
>> you look through you could alter loads of stuff like where Favourites
>> etc are saved, which I might start doing.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
>> Folders]
>> "AppData"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian.TANGIER.000\\Application
>> Data"
>> "Cookies"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian.TANGIER.000\\Cookies"
>> "Desktop"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian.TANGIER.000\\Desktop"
>> "Favorites"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian.TANGIER.000\\Favorites"
>> "NetHood"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian.TANGIER.000\\NetHood"
>> "Personal"="p:\\"
>> "My Pictures"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian.TANGIER.000\\My
>> Documents\\My Pictures"
>> "PrintHood"=""
>> "Recent"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian.TANGIER.000\\Recent"
>> "SendTo"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian.TANGIER.000\\SendTo"
>> "Start Menu"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian.TANGIER.000\\Start Menu"
>> "Templates"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian.TANGIER.000\\Templates"
>> "Programs"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian.TANGIER.000\\Start
>> Menu\\Programs"
>> "Startup"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian.TANGIER.000\\Start
>> Menu\\Programs\\StartUp"
>> "Local Settings"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian.TANGIER.000\\Local
>> Settings"
>> "Local AppData"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian.TANGIER.000\\Local
>> Settings\\Application Data"
>> "Cache"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian.TANGIER.000\\Local
>> Settings\\Temporary Internet Files"
>> "History"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian.TANGIER.000\\Local
>> Settings\\History"
>> "Fonts"="C:\\WINNT\\Fonts"
>> "Administrative Tools"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\brian\\Start
>> Menu\\Programs\\Administrative Tools"
>>
>>
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