Soft links between samba profile and profile.V2

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Published on 2012-12-07T16:36:17Z Indexed on 2012/12/07 17:11 UTC
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I am currently using a samba server to host windows sessions. For the moment, every machine runs windows XP, but in an upcoming hardware upgrade, I will have new Windows 7 machines installed.

The problem is that the user directory changed from XP to 7 (for instance 'My Documents' became 'Documents'). To solve that, samba created a folder called profile.V2, which contains files and folders for Windows 7.

Now I would like to link the two profiles folders ('profile' from windows XP, 'profile.V2' from windows 7) so that a user can logon from a XP or 7 machine and still have access to the same files.

I tried to create softlinks between folder pairs ('Documents' -> 'My documents') and it seems to work. My question is : is it likely to create issues in the future?

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