[KLUG Members] Samba - PDC

[Adam Williams]

>>Any interest in a presentation on setting up Samba to act as
>>an Windows NT PDC (Primary Domain Controller) and dole out
>>User profiles?

Sure,  I think Samba is always a good topic.  Having Samba as your PDC has 
several perks.  Are you volunteering?

Beware that 3.x will be available "sometime early in 2002",  so you may be 
obseleted pretty quick.  Although I don't know how much will really change 
other than group support that is finally worth more than a barrell of 
moldy lentils.

>I'd just be interested in a presentation on taming Windows user
>profiles.  But that's more Windows-related.

If you just want to limit their size you can use the policy editor to 
exclude certain subfolders (Application Data, Documents) etc...  Makes 
them alot smaller, and a good partion of what is in the profile is cruft.
 
>I recently wrote a post that asked "Why does Microsoft make easy things
>so hard?"  It talked about library versioning in filenames (lack
>thereof), user profiles instead of using distributed home directories
>(like UNIX), etc...

The profile model actually makes more sense in some regards.  First it 
gets it all out of the way.  GNOME is constantly grousing around in 
~/.gnome which can be a little slow if you are using NFS.  If it copied 
~/.gnome to /tmp/{username} when I logged in,  and copied it back when I 
logged out that would be a better solution.  It would also protect it from 
getting crunched if something went wrong with my session, as the crunched 
copy wouldn't be copied back to the master.  IMHO, Microsoft was right to 
do it the way they did/do.

As for storing documents in the profile,  I have to agree that seems 
rather dumb.  You end up replicating lots of information that runs a high 
probablity of never being used (possibly never).  But it can be turned 
off, so no harm no foul.