Multiple OSes, 1 Mozilla profile?

[Austin Godber]

> I wouldn't necessarily recommend roaming profiles as Liberty is
> suggesting - at least not right away because there are a lot of
> considerations for using roaming profiles that I'm not gonna start
> getting into here.

I have just had the recent pleasure of converting a Win2k domain to a 
samba 2.2 domain with roaming profiles.  Things went smoothly with the 
exception of roaming profiles.  (NOTE: we weren't using much of the 
functionality of a win2k domain so it was possible for us to switch to 
samba without loosing much functionality).  I screwed up about 5 things 
in the process of ironing out the trouble with roaming profiles ... I 
will point out a few of them:

o logon.bat was not readable by users thus the times between client and 
server were not synchronized (a must for roaming profiles).

o profiles from old domain were not removed from existing client 
machines and identical user names caused cross contamination of new 
domain and old domain profiles (this was not thoroughly tested, but I 
believe this to be the case, I believe there is a significant difference 
in the handling of profiles in this situation by Windows and Samba)

In the end I was down to having two sets of machines ... identical Win2k 
SP3 machines, very similar hardware (why would it matter) one set would 
handle profiles properly and one would not push or pull profiles from 
the server (actually would pull the first time if there was no 
preexisting profile).  The only difference I noticed was that in the set 
that didn't work the hostnames (in various places) were in CAPS and the 
other lowercase.  However, network dumps of logons didn't reveal any 
difference in the hostnames sent over the network (granted this was 
rather error prone, inspecting these and since I am not familiar with 
the protocols I could have missed lots of things).

In the end I reinstalled the Win2k OS to SP3 on the nonworking set of 
hosts, typed the hostnames in lower case and they worked.

What am I trying to say? Other than getting that off my chest as if it 
were some dark secret.  I think that roaming profiles probably work fine 
under certain conditions (for instance if you built the network from the 
ground up and were careful), but are a bit more trouble in other cases.

Austin

PS - sorry to stray off topic