[olug] Samba roaming profiles

[Rob Townley]

There is a long list of filename extensions that are not supposed to be
synced by offline files such as .MDB so i would be very very very careful if
you go that route -- you very well may have more lost files.  It is not for
everyone, i would not recommend it.

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:

> Craig Wolf wrote:
> > So if I redirect Desktop, My Docs, etc. when a laptop user logs back
> > into the network, what happens to the files they WERE using/updating
> > at home...do they sync or do they get overwritten?  Do I setup 2
> > accounts for them on the laptop: 1. for home, 1 for work or 1 accoutn
> > that is a local user AND a network user? Web searching and consensus
> > here from those with knowledge is leading me to remove the roaming
> > profiles BUT I don't want lost files again.  That is embarrassing!
>
> If you use offline files you only need one account on the machine: the
> domain login account. The default configuration for domain member
> Windows desktops is to cache the domain credentials, so that if the
> domain controller isn't available the user can still log in.
>
> When the client machine syncs the Offline Files cache, it does just
> that: it syncs; the client machine keeps track of which files have been
> changed locally, if a particular file has been changed on the server
> *and* the laptop it asks what to do.
>
> If you are uncertain about how it will behave, test it before you roll
> it out company-wide.
>
> --
>
> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us
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