[wplug] Samba PDC not saving profiles

[John Harrold]

Sometime in October Jeremey Wise assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Thoughts:
| 
| You did not state what OS was connecting to the SMB shares. Older
| Versions of Windows require a Netlogon share.

Indeed I should have specified this. I'm running windows 2000 server.

| *****
| [netlogon]
|    comment = Network Logon Service
|    path = /usr/local/samba/lib/netlogon
|    guest ok = yes
|    writable = no
|    share modes = no
| *****

I created this, but I don't know what it will do.  From the documentation
it seems I can specify a logon script, but I don't really need one.

| The issue of the settings not being saved in likely a perms issue with
| their profile directory. They have to be able to write temp files which
| will then get updated to the "normal.doc" etc... master files for the MS
| Office suite. 

Right now I have their profile directory set up to be in their home
directory, which they have write access. Since I can login to the domain
via windows 2000 server and the .windows_profile directory is created,
wouldn't this imply that I have the correct permissions? After logging in
and starting up powerpoint, i don't seem to be able to locate the
normal.doc file in ~/.windows_profile.

| ******
| # Un-comment the following to provide a specific roving profile share
| # the default is to use the user's home directory
| [Profiles]
|     path = /usr/local/samba/profiles
|     browseable = no
|     guest ok = yes
| *****
  
| I find some applications have a realy hard time with correct perms on
| temp files and so have reverted to applying a file and directory
| creation mask for the problematic shares.

Do you mean something like this:

  create mask     = 0600
  directory mask  = 0700

Can you elaborate on placing the profiles in the users' home directory
versus creating a place to store profiles? Sorry, but I don't understand
how one would be better than the other with respect to correctly storing
permissions.

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