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