I've got a hybrid network of Windoz and Mac clients that I want to auth to a CentOS Samba server (currently running a tdbsam backend but will eventually be migrated to an OpenLDAP backend)...what is the best solution for "sync'ing" the Mac clients (mostly laptops) to the server, all the solutions that I've seen suggest that I should simply map the users home drive to the PDC but that doesn't mac much since to me seeing as they need to access their computers data while they're off site...is there a way to "sync" user profiles in Linux>?

THanks

I do not think Mac supports roaming profiles like Windows does. It is documented here: http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samb...ofileMgmt.html
Why you need this feature? Is is because your users login to different pc`s all the time?

I do not recommend using roaming profiles. It creates more trouble than it solves. Keep it simple, that works best.

I would recommend just creating a home-share for all your users and make is auto mount on your clients when they login.
If you want your users to have offline capabilities on the data, then I would recommend looking at services like dropbox. This is a great utility you install on any computer (mac, linux, windows) and it will make data sync automatically to all computers (This is a paying service if you exceed 2GB).

If it is centralized backup you are looking for, Crashplan is a great alternative to look at.

/MartOn