[Samba] Outlook .pst files on Samba PDC

[Alex]

Occasional problems arise where the .pst file just will not copy from the
users profile on the server. Doesn't seem to be related to the file size.
Has anyone had issues with outlook and Samba PDC - (win2k clients).
Solutions that have worked have ranged from complete loss of the .pst file
to restarting users profile from scratch. thanks

Alex Genna

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[Kurt Weiss]

in a view issues, there's broken security rights on the client the reason...

Alex schrieb:

[Alex]

Thanks for your response.
Not sure I understand- Are the clients not set up well?
what is "a view issues"?
Sorry I'm new to the list I appologize if this info is somewhere I should
have looked prior to submitting.

Regards,
Alex Genna

[Tarjei Huse]

Hi,

I think there's only one solution in the end: store your users mails on
an imapserver.

As profiles grow, they sometimes get corrupted, also, if you just keep
pstfiles on the server (possible w/outlook) you end up getting trouble
anyway (in my experience).

> > > Solutions that have worked have ranged from complete loss of the .pst

you got some fine solutins :P

Also, while you're at it; consider moving to mandatory profiles. They save you a _lot_ of work.

Just my .02 cent.
tarjei

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> > > to restarting users profile from scratch. thanks
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> > > Alex Genna
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[Kurt Weiss]

hello alex,

Alex schrieb:

> Thanks for your response.
> Not sure I understand- Are the clients not set up well?

it was not a setup problem. - a view times w2k "looses" security
settings for a file. (i don't know why, sometimes it seems, that the
filesystem has a bug...)
so, if u look to the security settings of the file on the client, there
where not entries inside...

> what is "a view issues"?

in a view cases... i'm austrian, not from oxford... ;-)

gk

[Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH]

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Alex wrote:
> Occasional problems arise where the .pst file just will not copy from
> the users profile on the server. Doesn't seem to be related to the
> file size. Has anyone had issues with outlook and Samba PDC - (win2k

> clients). Solutions that have worked have ranged from complete loss
> of the .pst file to restarting users profile from scratch. thanks
I once had this problem, but mine was related to this registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System -
ExcludeProfileDirs
This key was set to %USERPROFILE$%\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook.
And this policy is introduced with Office2k... *arg*

After deleting this key all my problems went away...

Cheers
Nicki

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[Noel Kelly]

I agree - keeping any valuable data in a profile is asking for trouble -
especially as profiles get overwritten so you have no chance of recovering a
lost one.

PST files also grow exponetially so you will soon be looking at huge
login/logoff times as huge PST files are copied up and down to the server.

Why not position the PSTs in the user's home drive? We have done this
before and it works OK. We also have the Desktop folder in their home drive
as well so people can save stuff there and not worry about it being lost
through over write next time the client/server disagree about the profile
sync.

The only thing you want in the profile are those program settings which can
be recreated - keep any real data well away.

Noel

-----Original Message-----
From: Tarjei Huse [mailto:tar...@nu.no]
Sent: 17 March 2003 20:15
To: Alex
Cc: SambaList; Kurt Weiss
Subject: Re: [Samba] Outlook .pst files on Samba PDC

Hi,

I think there's only one solution in the end: store your users mails on
an imapserver.

As profiles grow, they sometimes get corrupted, also, if you just keep
pstfiles on the server (possible w/outlook) you end up getting trouble
anyway (in my experience).

> > > Solutions that have worked have ranged from complete loss of the .pst

you got some fine solutins :P

Also, while you're at it; consider moving to mandatory profiles. They save
you a _lot_ of work.

Just my .02 cent.
tarjei

> file

> > > to restarting users profile from scratch. thanks
> > >

> > > Alex Genna
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> >
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