Bug 12706 - Incorrect documentation about disabling roaming profiles
Summary: Incorrect documentation about disabling roaming profiles
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Samba 4.1 and newer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P5 major (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Samba Documentation QA Contact~
QA Contact: Samba Documentation QA Contact~
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Reported: 2017-03-21 11:22 UTC by Holger Schletz
Modified: 2025-03-20 07:46 UTC (History)
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Description Holger Schletz 2017-03-21 11:22:24 UTC 
The smb.conf manpage says:

Disable the use of roaming profiles by setting the value of this parameter to the empty string. For example, logon path = "".

This is incorrect and causes malfunction on the client. The correct way to disable roaming profiles is:

logon path =
Comment 1 Douglas Bagnall 2025-03-20 00:07:05 UTC 
Rowland, is this correct?

I can make the change if it is.
Comment 2 Rowland Penny 2025-03-20 07:46:18 UTC 
(In reply to Douglas Bagnall from comment #1)
Hi Douglas,
It has been quite sometime since I set up an NT4-style domain, but I do believe that it is correct. If you read 'man smb.conf', under 'logon path' there is this:

Do not quote the value. Setting this as “\\%N\profile\%U” will break profile handling.

So presumably using 'logon path = ""' also breaks profile handling.