I have a few weird problems with profiles on my samba PDC. Right now I'm just testing with two XP pro clients. Samba is Samba version 3.0.2a-Debian The problems that I'm having and I believe are related are: 1.) Profiles are saved to the server, but don't migrate to different clients. This is very odd, I can make all sorts of changes to the profile and I can see those changes being saved to the server. When I log back in those changes are loaded to the local machine, if I try to login to another client, I see a totally separate profile. The kicker is that all data is being saved to the same path, but somehow it can differenetite which client is logging in. 2.) Once the profile is created on one client, the home dir is writable to only that client. The home dirs and profile dir is two separate locations /home/%u for homedirs /home/profile/%u for profiles Thanks for the help Miles
Even though it might not look like it is so, your profiles are likely
only being stored locally.
In our case, I have a dmusers group that each user is a member of and
the dmusers group has rw rights to the profiles directory on the server.
What Windows does is store the profile on the local machine and will
update the 'roaming profile' on the server, if applicable. You might not
be seeing or receiving an error message stating that they aren't able to
update/upload the profile to the server.
Check in your Windows Event viewer to see if there are any message
stating that.
I would also check permissions on the 'profiles' directory. It might
need a decent alteration of the existing permissions to allow the
profiles to be updated.
-Rob
Miles Scruggs wrote:
>I have a few weird problems with profiles on my samba PDC. Right now
I'm
>just testing with two XP pro clients. Samba is
>Samba version 3.0.2a-Debian
>
>The problems that I'm having and I believe are related are:
>
>1.) Profiles are saved to the server, but don't migrate to different
>clients. This is very odd, I can make all sorts of changes to the profile
>and I can see those changes being saved to the server. When I log back in
>those changes are loaded to the local machine, if I try to login to another
>client, I see a totally separate profile.
>
>The kicker is that all data is being saved to the same path, but somehow it
>can differenetite which client is logging in.
>
>2.) Once the profile is created on one client, the home dir is writable to
>only that client.
>
>The home dirs and profile dir is two separate locations
>
>/home/%u for homedirs
>/home/profile/%u for profiles
>
>
>Thanks for the help
>
>Miles
>
>
>
>
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Regards,
Robert Adkins
IT Manager/Buyer
Impel Industries, inc.
586-254-5800
Hi all, I have just installed Suse 9.1 and samba 3.02a. I have set samba up as a PDC. I am able to log into it but windows complains about not being able to find the profile. I have created the dir /var/lib/samba/profiles/ and the users folders. 1: Where can I find the windows default profile? 2: Can this be edited (default win profile )? Thanks in advance Barry
In the smb.conf there should be a session called [profiles], it specifies the paht=/var/samba/profiles/%U or something similar and I read somewhere the mode to that directory has to be 1777. Hope this helps. -- Kang "B.Rumsey" <basza@woosh.co.nz> wrote in message news:200407121531.51004.basza@woosh.co.nz...> Hi all, > I have just installed Suse 9.1 and samba 3.02a. I have set samba up as aPDC.> I am able to log into it but windows complains about not being able tofind> the profile. I have created the dir /var/lib/samba/profiles/ and the users > folders. > > 1: Where can I find the windows default profile? > 2: Can this be edited (default win profile )? > > Thanks in advance > > Barry > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >