Multiple OSes, 1 Mozilla profile?

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 19:52, Austin Godber wrote:
> > 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.
> 
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To make roaming profiles work properly - you have to have a fairly
thorough understanding of the entire windows processes. This being a
Linux message base, I'm not sure how this relates.

I have gotten it to work fine on many of my client networks and it isn't
very difficult. I am suspecting that you never 'released' the machines
from their workstation trust account status to the previous domain
before you tried to bind them to the new SAMBA controlled domain.

Craig