Comment 13 for bug 521085

I don't know if it's worth backporting 3.4.5 to Karmic. In researching this problem and talking to a number of windows sys admins it seems that most samba server users have just given up on roaming profiles because they can't get them to work. It doesn't help that the XP Group Policy settings (managed using gpedit.msc) don't seem to work as advertised, at least not by my testing. Add to that the agony of ironing out a problem when local profile caching is turned on (i.e. the 3-reboot minimum).

Unfortunately, in an office with XP clients where people move around there's not much alternative. Well, save for re-installing all the desktops with linux and running Windows apps using Virtualbox. <:)