[KLUG Members] samba user permissions

[John Pesce]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 11:25, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> We use policies to control roaming profiles, and it works quite well.
> You can defined some folders to be excluded from propogation (they are
> always local) and other can be redirected - so for instance the
> "desktop" is really a folder on a server, "My Document" is a folder in
> their home directories, same with "Images", etc...
> 
> This makes it easy to also do things like drop items onto user's
> desktops.

Oh. That sounds nice. Is that configured in the smb.conf file. I'll
check the Samba docs. Do you have an example snippet to look at?


> Some (many... most?) applications that are poorly designed (the one in
> question clearly is) walk all over the registry;  but their are several

Stupid question 2. Is the Windows user's hive the HKEY_CURRENT_USER
tree? Is this the tree that uses are supposed to be able to edit?
If so, is this part of the roaming profile so that they don't have to
setup database access every time?