samba - Jun 2022 - NT4 Roaming Profiles

On 6/8/22 18:17, Robert Steinmetz,,, via samba wrote:
> I have an NT4 Domain which has Roaming Profiles Configured. Recently I 
> have been getting error messages on the Windows 10 clients that the 
> roaming profiles are not completely loading. I have checked the .V6 
> profiles are being created. The relevant appropriate portions of my 
> smb.conf file are:
> 
>  ??????? logon path = \\REMUS\profiles\%U
>  ??????? logon home = \\REMUS\%U
>  ??????? logon drive = U:
>  ??????? domain logons = Yes
> 
> Note that the pats and home directories are on a different server than 
> the PDC. This has worked for me in the past.
In my experience Roaming Profiles have never worked vaguelly fine.
With Windows 10, it's even worse, as, as you say, they never completely 
load (althoug this is mostly a non critical error).

AFAICT, the reason lies in the permissions of the AppData\Roaming folder 
where UWP apps are stored: there seems to be some files there for which 
the user has no write permission, so loading the profile can't overwrite 
them.

Sorry to be so imprecise, but I have no Windows machine at hand now. 
Check the client's Event Viewer and you'll see the relevant messages.

  bye
	av.

15.06.2022 13:18, Andrea Venturoli via samba wrote:
> In my experience Roaming Profiles have never worked vaguelly fine.
> With Windows 10, it's even worse, as, as you say, they never completely
load (althoug this is mostly a non critical error).
We've been using roaming profiles since samba 2.x times,
with all versions of windows since winXP. Used them a lot
on many networks, small and large(ish), including NT domains
and - starting with this year - AD.

And I can say it all definitely works and works exactly as
intended.  Yes we had one or another issue here and there
over the years, that's for sure, but that's kinda expected
too.

FWIW.

/mjt