How to setup Roaming Profile in Mac

Can anyone guide me to setup a roaming profile for 10 Mac machines? Thanks for your responses in advance.

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This Tutorial Shows how to create roaming profile(s) for Windows Workgroups.
Here are the steps in order to do this:
On the host PC:
1. Goto 'Folder Options'>'View' and un-tick 'Use Simple File Sharing'.
2. Goto Network Connections and right click on the 'Local Area Connection' (Ethernet recommended)
3. Goto Properties>General, and tick 'File and Printer Sharing'.
Click Apply + Ok.
4. Goto Control Panel>User Accounts, add a new user.
5. Logon to this user, and open the profile folder properties.
5b. Share this folder.
6. Make the Share permissions so that 'everyone' has: Full Control, Read, Change.
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7. Click on 'Caching' and disable Caching for this Share.
Click Ok.
8. Now goto the 'Security' tab and give 'Administrator' and 'SYSTEM' 'Full Control'.
Click Apply + Ok.
On the remote PC(s):
1. Make the same User as on the Host.
1b.Logon to the account and log back out again. Delete the profile folder from 'Documents and Settings'.
3. Give 'SYSTEM': 'Read','Read and Execute','List Folder Contents' to the 'Administrators' Profile
4. Type 'lusrmgr.msc' into run, goto: 'Users', double click on the new user and goto the 'Profile' tab.
4b. In the 'Profile Path' box, type \\hostPCname\ProfileName.
Click Apply + Ok
*Note* Replace the \\path\ accordingly to what names are on your Host PC.
5. Goto regedit>HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion. Double click
on 'ProfileList'.
Find which key is for the new user. (Example S-1-5-21-58435627-18431725-18026167-1003)
6. Right click that key and goto: 'Permissions' and give 'SYSTEM' 'read'.
*Note* Once you logon to the roaming profile from the remote PC for the first time you can undo this step.
7. goto GPEdit>Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/User Profiles:
Enable these settings:
'Do not check for user ownership of roaming profile folders'
'Delete cached copies of roaming profiles'
'Log users off when roaming profile fails'
"Add the Administrators security group to roaming profiles'
'Prevent roaming profile changes from propagating to the server'
7b. Make 'Timeout for dialog boxes' '1' (seconds)
8. goto: Computer Configuration/Security Settings/Local Policies/Security Options:
Make 'Number of previous logons to cache (if server is unavailable) '0'
Now you're ready to login to the Profile on the remote PC.
*Note* Sometimes, when windows loads it takes a minute for the profile folder to become shared again.
Thanks for reading.

Hi,
I have replied to the below thread mentioning the FM's to create Profile sets, profiles and also target groups. This may be helpful to you.
Re: target group creation
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I can bind the workstations to the domain fine.. But can someone direct me to instructions of how to set up the roaming profiles ?
What steps do I need on the server ? This is what I've done so far.
I already have OU's for the departments and the users have a shared folder inside their department folder.... \\server\shared_folder\user
I have done the usual things with AD as far as the profile settings on the windows server.
Am currently running Mac OS 10.5 and above
My windows AD runs on windows server 2008
All my windows workstation are able to use roaming profile without a problem.
So far i have tried the so many avenues including..
Make sure the Mac systems are joined to the domain controller and an ADS user can log on successfully. Use "Directory Utility" under "Utilities" menu to join the system to the domain.
Backup all the contents from /Users to the storage or somewhere locally.
Configure automount - Go to "Utilities" -> "Directory Utility" - Select the domain and click "Show advanced options" - Click "Mounts" tab and add automount as mentioned below. Remote NFS URL: nfs://server_name/share_name/path/to/profile/directory Mount location: /Users Additional mount parameters: -P,-T Apply the settings and this will mount the remote shared folder or we can name it as Roaming Profile Space - under /Users directory
Enable roaming profile - Go to "Utilities" -> "Directory Utility" - Select the domain and click "Show advanced options" - Click "Services" -> Select "Active Directory" and click "Show advanced option" - Click "User experience" tab and select the option "Create mobile account at login".
Reboot the system and log in as any ADS user. The Roaming shared folder will be mounted and the user profile will be created on the shared folder
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Cannot load the roaming profile in MAC OS X Leopard (10.5.4)

Hi
i am using leopard 10.5.4.my users have a default windows profile path at /Server HD/Users/Profiles/username.when i login from windows clients some users cannot load the profile.the following error is displayed in windows clients
windows cannot load your roaming profile.
please help me to resolve this issue
regs
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Roaming profiles via Mac OSX Server are different from Roaming Profiles via Windows Server.
Some things you must do, to keep the profiles syncing... First understanding that an database (db) files will create issues. Windows does not do a good job of releasing / unlocking the files. This will show up in Thumbs.db and newly created Favorites located within the profile.
1. Disable thumbnail caching on the windows clients.
2. Disable web client services (optional).
3. Move any db,s (like ACT 2008) out of the profile.
3. Move Favorites out to the profile (we use teakUI to relocate it to c://)
On boot, the error that a roaming profile can't load, will also present (about 20 seconds) the path of the bad file.
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Can I setup roaming profiles on Windows 7 with a NAS?

I am going to setup Windows 7 (64-Bit) on 2 Desktops & 1 Laptop on my home network.
I have a Central Axis NAS connected. I would like to be able to use roaming profiles on the PC's and have the Home location of the profiles on the NAS. I know the Laptop will have to keep a temporary profile on it until it can reconnect to my network.
I currently have no roaming profiles setup yet on any PC.
Has anyone attempted anything like this?

Hello,
This should have been asked in the
Windows 7 forum on Microsoft Community, or the Windows 7 IT Pro forums:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/home?category=w7itpro
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That's what I do. I keep it simple, one calendar, one set of contacts.
iCloud is really the simplest way to go, as it will sync your (eventual) single Contacts and Calendar across all your devices.
I would:
Figure out which single calendar (in Calendar.app) and contacts (in Contacts.app) that you want to keep.
I'd make a backup of each one. For example,
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in Calendar, File > Export... > Calendar Archive...
Make a backup of the other calendar events and contacts that you want to save.
delete all the contacts and calendars from your phones and your iPad.
add the contacts and events from the backups to the single calendar in Calendar.app and your contacts in Contacts.app on your iMac. There is probably some way to export the contacts and events you are adding, and then combine them, but you could also just add them manually.
Then when you configure all your devices for iCloud, they will be all synced automatically.
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Set up roaming profiles for mac and windows

So I have a a few macs and some windows pcs. I am using windows server 2008 for the server and I was able to bind the macs to the server. I also did set up the romeing profiles on the server. The thing I am having a issue with is I will like it so when someone saves a file on there mac desktop and they login to a windows computer it will show that file on the windows desktop. If anyone can help me on how to set this up please do

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Roaming Profile at User level simply not copying...no error

Little rusty on setting this up but if I recall if I choose to setup roaming profiles at the user object level then I simply need to create a share with the appropriate share/NTFS permissions then assign the UNC path in the Profile tab in ADUC? We
are running Win 2008 R2 with Win 7 SP1 clients.
If this is correct then I have done this and the profile will simply not roam...no errors in event log, the test user simply logs in and has a normal local profile. While I am logged in as this user I can access the above UNC and create a folder so
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Hi,
Since Roaming Profile doesn’t work correctly, and you could not find any error in the event logs. At this time, I suggest you’d better first check for the correct permissions on the profile
share. In addition to logging events in the Application Event log, User Profiles can provide a detailed log to aid troubleshooting. To create a detailed log file for user profiles:
1. Start regedit and locate the following path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
2. Create a new value called UserEnvDebugLevel as a REG_DWORD, and set the value to 30002 in hexadecimal format.
The log file can be found at: %windir%\debug\usermode\userenv.log
Regarding how to troubleshoot Roaming Profile issue, please try to refer to the following article to see if it helps.
Troubleshoot User Profiles with Events
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj649075.aspx
Here are some guide about how to configure Roaming Profile, they may be useful to us.
Configuring Roaming User Profiles
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738596(WS.10).aspx
Group Policy Recommendations for Roaming User Profiles
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781862(v=ws.10).aspx
How to configure Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection
http://www.grouppolicy.biz/2010/08/best-practice-roaming-profiles-and-folder-redirection-a-k-a-user-virtualization/
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Roaming Profiles on NSS

I do not use DLU, as my users authenticate against synchronized AD
Can Roaming Profile be assigned & how to configure (with user home
directories/profile etc) being on NSS volume
Seb

No, that is not correct.
Roaming Profiles work fine with DLU and Windows 7 and NSS.
On 6/18/2013 4:56 PM, HarryBoyee wrote:
>
> Hi Craig and Shaun,
>
> So just to clarify, if we are running Windows 7 (no-AD) with DLU and
> Roaming Profiles, we won't be able to "roam" because of Windows 7 and
> DLU? We would only be able to setup roaming profiles for Windows 7 if
> we had users login to an AD domain, correct? Most of our users have
> their 1 computer with a few exceptions but those exceptions are where we
> see issues with temp and incomplete profiles. Is there any way around
> this? If not, what I see happening is we put them on a domain and then
> we no longer need ZENworks for dlu, roaming profiles, and group policies
> since they are in a domain. We would start to think about why we would
> need ZENworks and possibly look at alternatives out there for remote
> management, application deployment, patching, full disk encryption, etc.
> For now we are looking at no longer using roaming profiles and just
> have DLU create a local account and maybe redirect the profile folders.
>
> Harry
>
>
> craig_wilson;2263670 Wrote:
>> You may still have Roaming Profiles on NSS Volumes, but you would need
>> to configure this via your AD Setup, not ZCM Setup.
>>
>> This may require configuring some type of Windows Emulation on your
>> server hosting the NSS Volumes to allow you to configure it through AD
>> if using Windows 7.
>>
>> On 5/14/2013 2:06 PM, spgsitsupport wrote:
>>>
>>> craig_wilson;2263322 Wrote:
>>>> None of this applies to you.
>>>>
>>>> #1 - ZCM Does not support Roaming Profiles with an AD Logon with
>>>> Windows
>>>> 7. (XP is still fine, but as you move to Windows 7 you will neee
>> to
>>>> move to AD Roaming Policies.)
>>>>
>>>
>>> But that also means that I can NOT have Roaming Profiles on NSS
>> volume
>>> any more, correct?
>>>
>>> Seb
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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