[K12OSN] Roaming profiles

[Mark Gumprecht]

Is there a script that some one may have written to move the My 
Documents and Desktop of the /opt/samba/profiles/$users$ to the 
/home/$user$ directory? Possibly merge the files if the directory exists?
Mark

Doug Simpson wrote:

>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.
>
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>
>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:
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>>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:
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>>>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
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>>>>On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 06:54, Mark Gumprecht wrote:
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>>>>>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....
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>>>>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
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>>>remember the
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>>>>resolution to that.
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>>>>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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>>Mark Gumprecht
>>Data Systems Specialist
>>MSAD3
>>Unity, ME
>>gumprechtm at msln.net
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Mark Gumprecht
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Unity, ME
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