Hi all I recently built a samba box to try and straighten up a nasty setup that my predecessors had running. The old setup was a Win2k box running AD, which I know very little about. All of the clients are running WinXP; some of them were authenticating via the Win2k box, some were just using local accounts. In either case, all files were being stored on the client machines, the server was just used as a shared file space. I've set up a CentOS 4.2 box running Samba v3. Using a fresh XP machine, I can authenticate via Samba, have drives automatically mapped via a logon script, and have access to printers. New files are stored locally (we do NOT want roaming profiles), and all of the data is accessible when the machine is disconnected from the network. This is essentially the exact functionality I'm looking for. However, the problem arises when I try to get the existing clients setup for the new domain. I'm able to join the domain without a problem. However, when I reboot and try to login via a samba username / password (we're using a first initial-last name convention), Windows creates a new profile in C: \Documents and Settings\username.NEWDOMAIN, while all of the original data is in C:\Documents and Settings\username, and is essentially gone as far as the users are concerned. So, is there an easy fix for this? Is there something I'm completely overlooking? I will happily provide any necessary config files or snippets of config files if needed. Thanks very much! ZB
> However, the problem arises when I try to get the existing clients setup for the new domain. I'm able to join the domain without a problem. However, when I reboot and try to login via a samba username / password (we're using a first initial-last name convention), Windows creates a new profile in C: > \Documents and Settings\username.NEWDOMAIN, while all of the original data is in C:\Documents and Settings\username, and is essentially gone as far as the users are concerned.Try this: 1) create a new account with admin rights (maybe administrator 2) 2) go to "local users and groups" -> right click on Administrators -> Add to Group -> Add... -> Location -> select your local computer name; enter the account name from 1) in the white box (administrator2) 3) restart! 4) go to the icon "my computer" -> righ click -> properties -> advanced -> user profiles -> settings from here copy the content from the local profile (username) to the DOMAIN.username profile; before you click OK, change the "permitted to use" to everyone (type Everyone in the whitebox) 5) click ok and wait ... you can delete the new administrator2 account regards,
I thought this had to do with the machine and user ID number (SID) related to the Domain server. If you do a "pdbedit -Lv -u username" you will see the SID numbers for that user. I would check and see that the first set of numbers related to the domain or workgroup (I think) match. I ran in to a similar problem before and I thought that is what I read was my problem. Hard subject to research if I remember correctly. Karl-> > Martin Miethe wrote: >>> However, the problem arises when I try to get the existing clients >>> setup for the new domain. I'm able to join the domain without a >>> problem. However, when I reboot and try to login via a samba username >>> / password (we're using a first initial-last name convention), >>> Windows creates a new profile in C: >>> \Documents and Settings\username.NEWDOMAIN, while all of the original >>> data is in C:\Documents and Settings\username, and is essentially >>> gone as far as the users are concerned. >> >> Try this: >> 1) create a new account with admin rights (maybe administrator 2) >> 2) go to "local users and groups" -> right click on Administrators -> >> Add to Group -> Add... -> Location -> select your local computer name; >> enter the account name from 1) in the white box (administrator2) >> 3) restart! >> 4) go to the icon "my computer" -> righ click -> properties -> >> advanced -> user profiles -> settings >> from here copy the content from the local profile (username) to the >> DOMAIN.username profile; >> before you click OK, change the "permitted to use" to everyone (type >> Everyone in the whitebox) >> 5) click ok and wait ... you can delete the new administrator2 account >> >> regards, >