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diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/logon/logonpath.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/logon/logonpath.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..440ebc4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/logon/logonpath.xml @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +<samba:parameter name="logon path" + context="G" + type="string" + xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc"> +<description> + <para> + This parameter specifies the directory where roaming profiles (Desktop, NTuser.dat, etc) are + stored. Contrary to previous versions of these manual pages, it has nothing to do with Win 9X roaming + profiles. To find out how to handle roaming profiles for Win 9X system, see the + <smbconfoption name="logon home"/> parameter. + </para> + + <para> + This option takes the standard substitutions, allowing you to have separate logon scripts for each user or + machine. It also specifies the directory from which the "Application Data", <filename + moreinfo="none">desktop</filename>, <filename moreinfo="none">start menu</filename>, <filename + moreinfo="none">network neighborhood</filename>, <filename moreinfo="none">programs</filename> and other + folders, and their contents, are loaded and displayed on your Windows NT client. + </para> + + <para> + The share and the path must be readable by the user for the preferences and directories to be loaded onto the + Windows NT client. The share must be writeable when the user logs in for the first time, in order that the + Windows NT client can create the NTuser.dat and other directories. + Thereafter, the directories and any of the contents can, if required, be made read-only. It is not advisable + that the NTuser.dat file be made read-only - rename it to NTuser.man to achieve the desired effect (a + <emphasis>MAN</emphasis>datory profile). + </para> + + <para> + Windows clients can sometimes maintain a connection to the [homes] share, even though there is no user logged + in. Therefore, it is vital that the logon path does not include a reference to the homes share (i.e. setting + this parameter to \\%N\homes\profile_path will cause problems). + </para> + + <para> + This option takes the standard substitutions, allowing you to have separate logon scripts for each user or machine. + </para> + + <warning><para> + Do not quote the value. Setting this as <quote>\\%N\profile\%U</quote> + will break profile handling. Where the tdbsam or ldapsam passdb backend + is used, at the time the user account is created the value configured + for this parameter is written to the passdb backend and that value will + over-ride the parameter value present in the smb.conf file. Any error + present in the passdb backend account record must be editted using the + appropriate tool (pdbedit on the command-line, or any other locally + provided system tool). + </para></warning> + + <para>Note that this option is only useful if Samba is set up as a domain controller.</para> + + <para> + Disable the use of roaming profiles by setting the value of this parameter to the empty string. For + example, <smbconfoption name="logon path">""</smbconfoption>. Take note that even if the default setting + in the smb.conf file is the empty string, any value specified in the user account settings in the passdb + backend will over-ride the effect of setting this parameter to null. Disabling of all roaming profile use + requires that the user account settings must also be blank. + </para> + + <para> + An example of use is: +<programlisting> +logon path = \\PROFILESERVER\PROFILE\%U +</programlisting> + </para> +</description> +<value type="default">\\%N\%U\profile</value> +</samba:parameter> |