Using the lastest unstable/frozen package of Samba I have run into a curious problem with Win98. I have finally got profiles and netlogon working to my satisfaction with one serious exception: all Explorer windows no longer automatically update when I add, remove or rename files (that are local).
So profiles are copied back and forth but I've broken Explorer... any help is appreciated. Giuliano Procida. My configuration follows. The file test.bat contains the line "net use h: /home" but this seems to make no difference either way. ; ; /etc/smb.conf ; ; Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux ; ; Please see the manual page for smb.conf for detailed description of ; every parameter. ; [global] debuglevel = 3 printing = bsd printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = no guest account = nobody invalid users = root domain logons = yes logon script = test.bat logon path = \\%N\home\profile ; The default for this option is \\%N\%U\profile, namely ; \\sambaserver\username\profile. The \\N%\%U service is created ; "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account ; in this server for every user accessing the server. security = user ; Change this for the workgroup your Samba server will part of workgroup = International server string = %h server (Samba %v) ; This socket options really speed up Samba under Linux, according to my ; own tests. SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF added by suggestion from socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096 ; Passwords are encrypted by default. This way the latest Windows 95 and NT ; clients can connect to the Samba server with no problems. encrypt passwords = yes ; It's always a good idea to use a WINS server. If you want this server ; to be the WINS server for your network change the following parameter ; to "yes". Otherwise leave it as "no" and specify your WINS server ; below (note: only one Samba server can be the WINS server). ; Read BROWSING.txt for more details. wins support = yes ; If this server is not the WINS server then specify who is it and uncomment ; next line. ; wins server = 172.16.0.10 ; Please read BROWSING.txt and set the next four parameters according ; to your network setup. There is no valid default so they are commented ; out. os level = 65 domain master = yes local master = yes preferred master = yes ; What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names ; to IP addresses name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast ; This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS. dns proxy = no ; Name mangling options preserve case = yes short preserve case = yes ; This boolean parameter controlls whether Samba attempts to sync. the Unix ; password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the ; /etc/smbpasswd file is changed. unix password sync = true ; For Unix password sync. to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following ; parameters must be set (thanks to Culus for pointing this out): passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New\spassword:* %n\n *Re-enter\snew\spassword:* %n\n *Password\schanged.* . ; The following parameter is useful only if you have then linpopup package ; installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are ; working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba. ; message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s' & ; The default maximun log file size is 5 MBytes. That's to big so this ; next parameter sets it to 1 MByte. Currently, Samba rotates log ; files (/var/log/{smb,nmb} in Debian) when these files reach 1000 KBytes. ; A better solution would be to have Samba rotate the log file upon ; reception of a signal, but for now on, we have to live with this. max log size = 1000 [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no ; By default, the home directories are exported read only. Change next ; parameter to "no" if you want to be able to write to them. read only = no ; File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to ; create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775. create mask = 0775 ; Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to ; create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775. directory mask = 0775 [printers] comment = All Printers browseable = no path = /tmp printable = yes public = no writable = no create mode = 0700 ; A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others. ;[cdrom] ; comment = Samba server's CD-ROM ; writable = no ; locking = no ; path = /cdrom ; public = yes ; ; The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the ; cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain ; an entry like this: ; ; /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0 ; ; The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the ; ; If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD ; is mounted on /cdrom ; ; preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom ; postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom ; Net Logon stuff [netlogon] path = /home/netlogon writeable = no guest ok = no ; Home directory stuff for profiles [home] path = /home/%U writeable = yes browseable = yes guest ok = no create mask = 0775 directory mask = 0775