1) Printing Since rh70 has LPRng I think you should use printing = lprng instead of ; printing = bsd 2) Not up-to-date comments # Use password server option only with security = server ; password server = <NT-Server-Name> This is not true, you have to use that directive with security = domain too. If you use "security = domain" you can even use "password server = *". 3) Obsolete comments ; domain controller = <NT-Domain-Controller-SMBName> this directive is obsolete/deprecated. Should neve be used. I suggest you take it out of the smb.conf file. 4) logon pqath # Where to store roving profiles (only for Win95 and WinNT) # %L substitutes for this servers netbios name, %U is username # You must uncomment the [Profiles] share below ; logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U Since 2.0.6 samba doesn't send anymore what you put in "logon path" to win9x machines, win9x only sees "logon home". See 2.0.7 release notes and updated DOMAIN.txt Now win9x machines can only put profiles in the homedir, like they can do in an nt4 domain. So you can logon home = \\%L\%U\ or logon home = \\%L\%U\<directory>, ie: logon home = \\%L\%U\.profile (hidden) "net use h: /home" will work now. If you want backward compatibility you need logon home = /some/path/outside/homedir you get the old behavior, and "net use /home" doesn't work as before. I think this should be considered deprecated and not mentioned. 5) "writable" has no effect on printer shares.
Fixed in samba-2.0.7-16; thanks for the feedback!
Point #3 and #4 are still there in beta2/rawhide/2.2.1-1 One more thing 6) # Enable this if you want Samba to be a domain logon server for # Windows95 workstations. ; domain logons = yes AFAIK this is not just for win95, but for all win (9x, nt, 2k, ..)
I've removed domain controller. Roving profiles is still there, as an identical section is still in smb.conf.default as shipped with samba. I've updated the text referring to Win95 as well. The changes should appear in samba 2.2.1a-3
>Roving profiles is still there, as an identical >section is still in smb.conf.default as shipped with samba. Ok, you are the one that will support this :-) However, have a look at what samba team writes in "man smb.conf" (logon path) and Samba-Howto-Collection.pdf (8.8.2.1 8.8.2.2) about this issue...