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r.s1 at gmx.at

2010-Apr-03 15:00 UTC

[Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7

Hello
I want to add Win7 machine to my Samba PDC with WinXP clients. Google tells me I
have to add a .V2 to my profiles. The samba log ask about a .v2 share.
Can someone explain me the difference of the v2 extension at the profile names
and the roaming profile share?
Following my settings:

smb.conf:
[global]
        logon path = \\%L\nt-profile
        logon home = \\%L\nt-profile

[nt-profile]
        comment = Client Profiles
        path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u
        read only = No
        create mask = 0600
        directory mask = 0700

[nt-profile.v2]
        comment = Client Profiles
        path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u
        read only = No
        create mask = 0600
        directory mask = 0700


ls -l /BUERO/samba/nt-profile
drwsrwsr-x 24 kira     users  4096 2010-04-03 16:16 kira
drwxr-sr-x  2 kira     users  4096 2010-04-02 18:59 kira.V2

These are 2 empty profiles.
I logged on to user kira with an XP client, set the background colour to green
and logged of. Profile kira was filled with data. Now I logged on to user kira
with an Win7 client, the background was black. I set the background to yellow
and logged of. The profile kira.V2 is still empty. Finally I logged on to kira
with XP and the background was yellow. So Win7 and XP are using the same
profile, which should be if I understand "mr. google" right. I thought
I just had to copy the roaming profiles to a profile with extension .V2.

I found following in the samba log during Win7 logon:
  :
get_referred_path: |nt-profile.V2| in dfs path \testserver\nt-profile.V2 is not
a dfs root.
  :
Connect path is '/BUERO/samba/nt-profile/kira' for service
[nt-profile.v2]
  :
connect to service nt-profile.v2 initially as user kira (uid=524, gid=100) (pid
12087)
  :
reduce_name [.] [/BUERO/samba/nt-profile/kira]
  :

Further, there is a reference to nt-profile.V2 (uppercase V2) and next a connect
to nt-profile.v2 (lowercase v2). What is the difference? Finally, the profile
kira is used and not kira.V2. Why?

Can someone explain me the correct setup of samba for Win7 clients?

regards robert
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John Drescher

2010-Apr-03 16:08 UTC

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On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:00 AM,  <r.s1 at gmx.at>
wrote:> Hello
> I want to add Win7 machine to my Samba PDC with WinXP clients. Google tells
me I have to add a .V2 to my profiles. The samba log ask about a .v2 share.
> Can someone explain me the difference of the v2 extension at the profile
names and the roaming profile share?
> Following my settings:
>
> smb.conf:
> [global]
> ? ? ? ?logon path = \\%L\nt-profile
> ? ? ? ?logon home = \\%L\nt-profile
>
> [nt-profile]
> ? ? ? ?comment = Client Profiles
> ? ? ? ?path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u
> ? ? ? ?read only = No
> ? ? ? ?create mask = 0600
> ? ? ? ?directory mask = 0700
>
> [nt-profile.v2]
> ? ? ? ?comment = Client Profiles
> ? ? ? ?path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u
> ? ? ? ?read only = No
> ? ? ? ?create mask = 0600
> ? ? ? ?directory mask = 0700
>
>
Make two shares.

[profiles]

and

[profiles.v2]

At least this is what works for me.

John

John Drescher

2010-Apr-03 16:10 UTC

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[Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 12:08 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
wrote:> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:00 AM, ?<r.s1 at gmx.at> wrote:
>> Hello
>> I want to add Win7 machine to my Samba PDC with WinXP clients. Google
tells me I have to add a .V2 to my profiles. The samba log ask about a .v2
share.
>> Can someone explain me the difference of the v2 extension at the
profile names and the roaming profile share?
>> Following my settings:
>>
>> smb.conf:
>> [global]
>> ? ? ? ?logon path = \\%L\nt-profile
>> ? ? ? ?logon home = \\%L\nt-profile
>>
>> [nt-profile]
>> ? ? ? ?comment = Client Profiles
>> ? ? ? ?path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u
>> ? ? ? ?read only = No
>> ? ? ? ?create mask = 0600
>> ? ? ? ?directory mask = 0700
>>
>> [nt-profile.v2]
>> ? ? ? ?comment = Client Profiles
>> ? ? ? ?path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u
>> ? ? ? ?read only = No
>> ? ? ? ?create mask = 0600
>> ? ? ? ?directory mask = 0700
>>
>>
>
> Make two shares.
>
> [profiles]
>
> and
>
> [profiles.v2]
>
> At least this is what works for me.
>
Also. They can NOT point to the same path. That was the point of
having a .v2. Vista+ and XP profiles are not compatible with each
other.

John

Christian Rost

2010-Apr-03 22:00 UTC

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Hi,

IMHO both profiles can stay within the same share, so you don't need a
separate .v2 share. It's the same with Windows 2003 Server and a mixture of
XP/ Vista/Seven Clients.

What you need to keep in mind is that Windows XP profiles are not compatible
with Vista/Seven profiles - hence the ".v2" suffix and they're
completely different profiles. When you're logging into Vista/Seven for the
first time, your exisitng pre-Vista profile will be converted and will be
renamed to <username>.v2. Each time you're logging into Vista/ Seven
the "<username>.v2" profile will be updated, and each time
you're logging into XP your "<username>" profile will be
updated.

Cheers,

Christian

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--------r.s1 at gmx.at wrote--------
Subject: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and	Win7
Date: 03.04.2010 17:02
>Hello
>I want to add Win7 machine to my Samba PDC with WinXP clients. Google
>tells me I have to add a .V2 to my profiles. The samba log ask about a .v2
>share.
>Can someone explain me the difference of the v2 extension at the profile
>names and the roaming profile share?
>Following my settings:
>
>smb.conf:
>[global]
>        logon path = \\%L\nt-profile
>        logon home = \\%L\nt-profile
>
>[nt-profile]
>        comment = Client Profiles
>        path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u
>        read only = No
>        create mask = 0600
>        directory mask = 0700
>
>[nt-profile.v2]
>        comment = Client Profiles
>        path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u
>        read only = No
>        create mask = 0600
>        directory mask = 0700
>
>
>ls -l /BUERO/samba/nt-profile
>drwsrwsr-x 24 kira     users  4096 2010-04-03 16:16 kira
>drwxr-sr-x  2 kira     users  4096 2010-04-02 18:59 kira.V2
>
>These are 2 empty profiles.
>I logged on to user kira with an XP client, set the background colour to
>green and logged of. Profile kira was filled with data. Now I logged on to
>user kira with an Win7 client, the background was black. I set the
>background to yellow and logged of. The profile kira.V2 is still empty.
>Finally I logged on to kira with XP and the background was yellow. So Win7
>and XP are using the same profile, which should be if I understand "mr.
>google" right. I thought I just had to copy the roaming profiles to a
>profile with extension .V2.
>
>I found following in the samba log during Win7 logon:
>  :
>get_referred_path: |nt-profile.V2| in dfs path \testserver\nt-profile.V2
>is not a dfs root.
>  :
>Connect path is '/BUERO/samba/nt-profile/kira' for service
[nt-profile.v2]
>  :
>connect to service nt-profile.v2 initially as user kira (uid=524, gid=100)
>(pid 12087)
>  :
>reduce_name [.] [/BUERO/samba/nt-profile/kira]
>  :
>
>Further, there is a reference to nt-profile.V2 (uppercase V2) and next a
>connect to nt-profile.v2 (lowercase v2). What is the difference? Finally,
>the profile kira is used and not kira.V2. Why?
>
>Can someone explain me the correct setup of samba for Win7 clients?
>
>regards robert
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r.s1 at gmx.at

2010-Apr-10 11:39 UTC

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Hello

@Damien
I remove nt-profile.v2 and deleted all server profiles in Win7 but I still was
logged on using a temporary profile.
I found a msg in sambalog like: service [nt-profile.v2] not found

@Linda
I made the same experince. There was never a profile <username>.V2
referenced and used.

Now I'm fully confused in that topic. I my test environment (1 PDC, 1 WinXP
and 1 Win7 virtual machines), I was able to logon with win7 using a server
profile with just <username>. The profile was newly created and empty and
samba had defined a [nt-profile.v2] share.
The same settings don't work in my production environment. I have the same
settings, defined a new user but Win7 is logging on using a temp profile. I set
log level to 4, inspected all messages but couldn't find any reason why a
temp profile.

Does someone have a good tip for me for further investigation or a reason?

This there a link available "How to setup samba with win 7 clients"?

regards robert

-------- Original-Nachricht --------> Datum: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 16:37:34 +0100
> Von: Damien Dye <damien.j.dye at googlemail.com>
> An: r.s1 at gmx.at
> CC: samba at lists.samba.org
> Betreff: Re: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP
and Win7
> Robert
> 
> remove the .V2 share and then remove your profiles from vista/win 7 at
> this
> reg key
> 
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
> 
> then all will work as expected.
> 
> 
> --
> Damien Dye BSC(hon)
> 
> 
> 
> On 4 April 2010 16:15, <r.s1 at gmx.at> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Christian
> > This what I expected with Win7 clients. But in my case XP and 7 are
> using
> > the same profile (which shouldn't be), but from different shares.
It
> seems
> > XP is connecting to the profiles via my share [nt-profile] and Win7
via
> > share [nt-profile.v2]. If i comment [nt-profile.v2], Win7 cannot
connect
> to
> > the profile (it starts always with an temporary profile). My
> <username>.V2
> > profiles are still empty. I never saw an logentry pointing to
> <username>.V2.
> > Several hits in google answers just to create/copy a
<username>.V2
> directory
> > and that's it. Which didn't work for me. [nt-profile.v2] was
just a
> guess
> > due to entries from the samba logs. The only possibility I see, is to
> define
> > "path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u.V2" (or something
similar) in
> > [nt-profile.v2] to differentiate between XP and 7. Who is adding the
v2
> > extension? Is it samba or Win7?
> > I'm running Samba 3.4.3.
> >
> > regards Robert
> >
> > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > > Datum: Sun,  4 Apr 2010 00:00:40 +0200 (CEST)
> > > Von: Christian Rost <cr at rocon-it.de>
> > > An: r.s1 at gmx.at
> > > CC: samba at lists.samba.org
> > > Betreff: RE: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile
between
> WinXP
> > and Win7
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > IMHO both profiles can stay within the same share, so you
don't need a
> > > separate .v2 share. It's the same with Windows 2003 Server
and a
> mixture
> > of
> > > XP/ Vista/Seven Clients.
> > >
> > > What you need to keep in mind is that Windows XP profiles are not
> > > compatible with Vista/Seven profiles - hence the ".v2"
suffix and
> they're
> > > completely different profiles. When you're logging into
Vista/Seven
> for
> > the first
> > > time, your exisitng pre-Vista profile will be converted and will
be
> > renamed
> > > to <username>.v2. Each time you're logging into Vista/
Seven the
> > > "<username>.v2" profile will be updated, and each
time you're logging
> > into XP your
> > > "<username>" profile will be updated.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Christian
> > >
> > > ==========================================================>
> > Dipl.-Ing. Christian Rost
> > > roCon - Informationstechnologie
> > > Glatzer Weg 4
> > >
> > > 44534 L?nen
> > >
> > > fon: +49 (0) 2306 910 658
> > > fax: +49 (0) 2306 910 664
> > > url: http://www.rocon-it.de
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --------r.s1 at gmx.at wrote--------
> > > Subject: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between
WinXP
> > > and   Win7
> > > Date: 03.04.2010 17:02
> > >
> > > >Hello
> > > >I want to add Win7 machine to my Samba PDC with WinXP
clients. Google
> > > >tells me I have to add a .V2 to my profiles. The samba log
ask about
> a
> > > .v2
> > > >share.
> > > >Can someone explain me the difference of the v2 extension at
the
> profile
> > > >names and the roaming profile share?
> > > >Following my settings:
> > > >
> > > >smb.conf:
> > > >[global]
> > > >        logon path = \\%L\nt-profile
> > > >        logon home = \\%L\nt-profile
> > > >
> > > >[nt-profile]
> > > >        comment = Client Profiles
> > > >        path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u
> > > >        read only = No
> > > >        create mask = 0600
> > > >        directory mask = 0700
> > > >
> > > >[nt-profile.v2]
> > > >        comment = Client Profiles
> > > >        path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u
> > > >        read only = No
> > > >        create mask = 0600
> > > >        directory mask = 0700
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >ls -l /BUERO/samba/nt-profile
> > > >drwsrwsr-x 24 kira     users  4096 2010-04-03 16:16 kira
> > > >drwxr-sr-x  2 kira     users  4096 2010-04-02 18:59 kira.V2
> > > >
> > > >These are 2 empty profiles.
> > > >I logged on to user kira with an XP client, set the
background colour
> to
> > > >green and logged of. Profile kira was filled with data. Now I
logged
> on
> > > to
> > > >user kira with an Win7 client, the background was black. I
set the
> > > >background to yellow and logged of. The profile kira.V2 is
still
> empty.
> > > >Finally I logged on to kira with XP and the background was
yellow. So
> > > Win7
> > > >and XP are using the same profile, which should be if I
understand
> "mr.
> > > >google" right. I thought I just had to copy the roaming
profiles to a
> > > >profile with extension .V2.
> > > >
> > > >I found following in the samba log during Win7 logon:
> > > >  :
> > > >get_referred_path: |nt-profile.V2| in dfs path
> \testserver\nt-profile.V2
> > > >is not a dfs root.
> > > >  :
> > > >Connect path is '/BUERO/samba/nt-profile/kira' for
service
> > > [nt-profile.v2]
> > > >  :
> > > >connect to service nt-profile.v2 initially as user kira
(uid=524,
> > > gid=100)
> > > >(pid 12087)
> > > >  :
> > > >reduce_name [.] [/BUERO/samba/nt-profile/kira]
> > > >  :
> > > >
> > > >Further, there is a reference to nt-profile.V2 (uppercase V2)
and
> next a
> > > >connect to nt-profile.v2 (lowercase v2). What is the
difference?
> > Finally,
> > > >the profile kira is used and not kira.V2. Why?
> > > >
> > > >Can someone explain me the correct setup of samba for Win7
clients?
> > > >
> > > >regards robert
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