[K12OSN] Roaming profiles

[Doug Simpson]

We use roaming profiles, but delete them automatically every Friday night 
using a cron job (on the student's home directories, not teacher's and 
others.) This way, they don't keep growing, they don't keep all the danged 
Temporary Internet Files (they really need to rename that to "Permanent 
Internet Files), history lists and such. I modified samba to put profiles 
under their own share that is non-browseable and they do not live in the 
user's home directory anymore. Make it easy to clean them up as a group or 
individually, if one gets messed up beyond usability.

That way, every monday, they copme back with a clean, fresh profile 
(default) and it fixes the messes they make out of their desktops, 
wallpapers, icons and all. . .

In this instance, students are not allowed to use My Documents to save to.  
They use their H: drive which is their home directory.  This way when the 
profile is deleted, they don't lose documents.  We also run Centurion 
Driveshield on the computers so they can't mess them up anyway.



Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
DeQueen Public Schools
DeQueen, AR 71832
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tux for President!

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Mark Gumprecht wrote:

> I thought I did that, Maybe I screwed that up and it is not working as 
> should. Thanks for direction
> Mark
> 
> cliebow at downeast.net wrote:
> 
> >touch with Jason Ingalls who wrote a startup.bat that works very nicely
> >with roaming profiles..only allows some pirces to raom and hooks My
> >Documents directly to the users fileserver "My Documents" chuck
> >
> >  
> >
> >>On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 06:54, Mark Gumprecht wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Heeeeeelp. Roaming profiles on the /opt partition are growing rapidly. 
> >>>What can one do after the cow is out the barn? Is it possible to set a 
> >>>manditory profile after the fact? How about adding a hard drive and grow 
> >>>the partition? Any thoughts? I obviously didn't plan well....
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Somewhere on the list a while back there was a discussion about
> >>how to force registry settings to move the default place to
> >>save things to a server drive which seems much more sane
> >>than what roabat that works vewry nicelyming profiles does.  Does anyone
> >>    
> >>
> >remember the
> >  
> >
> >>resolution to that.
> >>
> >>Also, it isn't particularly hard to add a drive and move
> >>a directory or partition.  Or if you are using LVM you
> >>can merge in a new partition to grow it.
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>  Les Mikesell
> >>    les at futuresource.com
> >>
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