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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Grant Sewell wrote: > > One side of me is saying "stick to Samba as PDC with Dovecot and other > things and figure out why Vista won't load roaming profiles from Samba". With Vista (and later versions of Windows) Microsoft dramatically changed their profile format. IIRC they also added some "sanity checks" so that if files are not where they are expected the whole thing just gets into a mess. > > Another side of me is saying "look for a Linux distro that sorts this > out for you". > > The final side of me says "they don't actually *need* roaming profiles > or hotdesking, so don't worry about the PDC thing at all" On a LAN you'd generally be better off using "Folder Redirection" than "roaming profiles". This also stands more chance of interoperating with XP and Vista. Since AFAIK Microsoft have made fewer changes to the applicable registry keys in NTUSER.DAT -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmIj2gACgkQsoRLMhsZpFcrkwCfWN0QYrrkhcUnmRV7BLaroq34 I0YAn3JW7Er2XlxC/rG3S8CPtzxdrMB6 =4QtD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html