I want to setup a linux box with samba as a file and print server for a LAN of 20 NT 4.0 SP3 workstations. I want the home direcotories to be on the server the clients to have roaming profiles. For this, do I have to make the linux box a domain controller? I want to avoid it if I can, because the domain control code in not on the production releases. I don't want to setup an NT server either. If I must do it, how robust is it (clients will mainly run MS office apps)? I don't want to give the 'decision maker' any point against linux. Many thanks in advance.
We are running Samba 2.0.4b on Solaris 2.6 . We have 20 machines with W95 and 20 with Win NT 4.0 WorkStation. We need users log on any machine, and , no matter which one, or on what computer is, profile must be available. We couldn't do it. Any idea of how can we do it?, or where can we get info about it? TIA
Hello all we have an NT setup with 25 workstations. An additional 20 workstation are planned for which 20 licenses have to be purchased. We are planning to use samba instead of purchasing licenses. We can do the basic configuration of samba. We have to create roaming profiles on samba. How to do that? Thanks in advance Vishwanath T.K.
Does anyone know of a good way to get win nt machines to not use roaming profiles with samba(2.2.1a)? I'm getting tired of the error messages. Thanks ************************************************************** Russ Ward Mississippi State University Russ@engr.msstate.edu ************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
Hi I migrated all users and groups from NT machine to Linux machine and I made Samba server as PDC.I also copied user's profiles from NT machine to Linux machine. When any user conects from NT workstation to Samba server, client is not allowed to change the wall paper etc.. it gives me the error like "Windows can't display the wallpaper,choose another" But when we create the user (not programmatically) and when the user firsts login from client machine,it automatically creates profile directory in the home directory of user and now the user is allowed to change the settings like wallpaper. I want to know how to solve the above problem? thanks in advance. viju. --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
check the rights of your copied profile-files! Must be the same as the new profile-files.... Peter
Hi all,
I'm running Samba 2.2.2 on Solaris 8 (installed via packages from
sunfreeware)
as a primary domain controller for a small domain of windows NT 4.0
workstations. Logging on to the domain works fine from the workstations but I
get an error saying that it couldn't download my profile from the server. I
don't want to use roaming profiles so I attempted to disable them by setting
logon path and logon home to null in my smb.conf file. I beleive this is the
correct way of disabling profiles, please let me know if I'm wrong. Anyway,
once this is done when I try to logon to the domain I get an error saying that
the primary domain controller couldn't be located. Does anyone know how to
fix
this? I don't want profiles, but obviously I do need the PDC to work
properly.... THANKS!
Beau
Here is what my GLOBAL section in smb.conf looks like:
client code page = 437
netbios name = Samba_PDC
workgroup = SambaDomain
domain logons = yes
server string = PDC
interfaces = 192.168.100.5/25
status = yes
browseable = yes
lock directory = /usr/local/samba/var/locks
log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m
null passwords = no
wins support = yes
name resolve order = lmhosts hosts bcast
os level = 65
dns proxy = yes
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
domain master = yes
getwd cache = yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
keep alive = 60
dead time = 30
locking = yes
map hidden = yes
map archive = yes
map system = yes
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
unix password sync = yes
passwd chat = "*new*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\n *changed*"
passwd program = /usr/bin/yppasswd %u
follow symlinks = yes
logon path logon home =
Also, to be thorough, here is my netlogon section:
comment = "Windows Domain Netlogon"
path = /export/samba/logon
public = no
writeable = no
browseable = no
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setting logon path to null disables your pdc-logon! better way is to use the user-manager in nt4 and set the profiles from server-based to local! Only my two pence.... peter
peter grotz <rehberger@mail.rmc.de> wrote: check the rights of your copied profile-files! Must be the same as the new profile-files.... Peter --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
hello, we use samba 2.2.3a as pdc and connect with win nt 4.0 clients, using roaming profiles. the problem is, a user can't set a background-bitmap or a screensave. when he change the color of the background, at next login this setting has lost. do you know this problem? best regards conny rothweiler
I have the same problem on XP. First desktop.ini files that must be taken care of with a "hide files" option in smb.conf, and now this :) When you go to the wallpaper/screensaver selection control panel, the correct one is highlighted too! It just won't set. Any clues? -----Original Message----- From: cornelia_rothweiler@ifm-electronic.com [mailto:cornelia_rothweiler@ifm-electronic.com] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 11:33 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] roaming profiles hello, we use samba 2.2.3a as pdc and connect with win nt 4.0 clients, using roaming profiles. the problem is, a user can't set a background-bitmap or a screensave. when he change the color of the background, at next login this setting has lost. do you know this problem? best regards conny rothweiler -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Iam trying to setup a samba PDC. Everything works just fine when I log
in with the root account on one of my workstations. But when I logon
with a normal user account I get the following message:
Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is
attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile
will not be copied to the server when you logoff. Possible causes of
this error include network problems or insufficient security rights. If
this problem persists, contact your network administrator.
DETAIL - The network name cannot be found.
A stripped down version of my smb.conf is like this:
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
path = /home/U%
browseable = yes
guest ok = no
read only = no
writable = yes
create mask = 0775
directory mask = 0775
[netlogon]
comment = Network Logon Service
path = /home/samba/netlogon
guest ok = yes
writable = no
share modes = no
[profiles]
comment = Roaming profiles directory
path = /home/samba/profiles/U%
read only = No
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0775
logon home = \\%L\%U\Win-profile
logon drive = h:
logon script = %U.bat
logon path = \\%L\profiles\%a\%U
What am I doing wrong? I can see that samba made a profile directory in
de users homedir, but I think it has somethink to to with read/write
acces...Iam using windows XP (without SP1), and a debian server.
Greetz Ronald.
I think I got everything to work now.. I removed changed /home/samba/profiles/U% to /home/samba/profiles But everytime I log on, a text file called desktop also open with the following in it: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21787 Its not really a problem, but just kinda annoying...Does anyone know how I can remove this? Greetz ronald. hi! try: path = /home/samba/profiles instead of path = /home/samba/profiles/U% best regards thomas reisenbichler>> Iam trying to setup a samba PDC. Everything works just fine when I log >> in with the root account on one of my workstations. But when I logon >> with a normal user account I get the following message: >> >> Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is >> attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the >> profile will not be copied to the server when you logoff. Possible >> causes of this error include network problems or insufficient security >> rights. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator. >> >> DETAIL - The network name cannot be found. >> >> A stripped down version of my smb.conf is like this: >> >> [homes] >> comment = Home Directories >> path = /home/U% >> browseable = yes >> guest ok = no >> read only = no >> writable = yes >> create mask = 0775 >> directory mask = 0775 >> >> [netlogon] >> comment = Network Logon Service >> path = /home/samba/netlogon >> guest ok = yes >> writable = no >> share modes = no >> >> [profiles] >> comment = Roaming profiles directory >> path = /home/samba/profiles/U% >> read only = No >> create mask = 0600 >> directory mask = 0775 >> >> logon home = \\%L\%U\Win-profile >> logon drive = h: >> logon script = %U.bat >> logon path = \\%L\profiles\%a\%U >> >> What am I doing wrong? I can see that samba made a profile directory in >> de users homedir, but I think it has somethink to to with read/write >> acces...Iam using windows XP (without SP1), and a debian server. >> >> Greetz Ronald. >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >> instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > >
I have a RH 6.0 (don't laugh) server I've set up. Hooked to the test machine its fine, but when I put in on the 3 machine network it did a few weird things: 1: Changed my Main User Profile on Machine #1 to what looks like a default profile. and When I login there no previous username in the Logon Box. (no windows Policies) 2: Crashes when Machine #2 of the machines logs in and is copying its roaming profiles to or from the server with this error: Kernel Panic: SKput:over:c2820b30:27855:dev eth0: In Swapper Task not syncing I seems to be doing this with just the one machine. a Win 98se box with an IntelPro/100B ibis the culprit. I tried disabling the roaming profiles, but that didn't seem to work and it still crashed. My RH Server uses Samba 2.2.5 and the NIC uses the Tulip driver that came with the distro. It's all connected through a Linksys Hub. The Machine that DOES work, uses a linksys 10/100 <came with the hub> Anyone even get this error? Or have and Idea why its being triggered? and more importantly how to fix the darn thing? The System is: AMD 233Mhz w/ 32 megs RH 6.0 kernel 2.2.5-15 Tulip .89H PPP 2.3.3 the system that is crashes with is: Pentium 300 64 megs Win 98 SE IntelPro/100B NIC w/ the newest drivers Connected thru a LinkSys 10/100 5 port hub K Smith --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.394 / Virus Database: 224 - Release Date: 10/3/02 -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
Hi, how can i manage roaming profiles only for few users? in samba there is an option that i manage the roaming profile for all lan's users but i want who only the "stage" users can this. In W2k is possible assign for every users if use local profile or not. Roaming profiles is a good choice if users change often pc, but in my office every user have a pc. Only new or stage users neeeds roaming profile because haven't pc. Please help me, my user profile are too big for my server!! andrea vecvac@tiscali.it __________________________________________________________________ Tiscali ADSL a 1 euro al giorno, traffico incluso!e in piu' telefoni gratis. Abbonati entro il 31 maggio, l'attivazione e' gratuita. http://point.tiscali.it/adsl/index.shtml
I'm hoping someone can help explain this...
I am running Samba3.0RC1 on Redhat 9.0 as a PDC. A quick run down of
the symptoms:
When connecting to the PDC from a Win2k machine with an account that
does not currently have a profile on the PDC, Win2k creates the profile
directory of the PDC. When logging off the Win2k machine, all contents
are pushed into the profile stored on the PDC. Works great!!
This gets real screwy. If I then log back on to the Win2k machine with
the same account, everything is normal. If I create a Folder and a Text
file on the Desktop and then log out, again they are pushed to the PDC
profile. Still working great!!!
Now, if I log in again, the folder and text file are on the desktop (as
expected). If I delete both the folder and text file and then log out,
the text file is deleted from the profile on the PDC, but the Folder is
not!!!!! When I log back on to the Win2k machine, the text file is
gone, but the Folder remains!!
Here is how I have my profiles share set up:
[profiles]
path = /somepath/profiles
browseable = Yes
read only = No
writeable = Yes
create mode = 0700
directory mode = 0700
When I first log into the Win2k machine, the profile directory shows the
permissions:
drwx------ 13 stevem domusers 4096 Aug 22 10:46 stevem
Here are the permissions on the /somepath/profiles/stevem/Desktop path:
drwx------ 2 stevem root 6 Aug 22 10:20 New Folder
drwx------ 2 stevem root 6 Aug 22 10:20 New Folder (2)
drwx------ 2 stevem root 6 Aug 22 13:09 xyz
These are never deleted from the profile after they are deleted from the
Desktop. I have even set rwx permissions across the board and they will
not delete.
Anyone have any suggestions? The log files don't show any issues on the
samb end. It's like a permission problem, but the user can create the
profile, add items, but not remove directories.
Thanks!!!
Mike Samba
Hi all. I'm runnig samba as a DC with win2k clients using roaming profiles. Since installation I have been experiencing problems with users unable to log in due to their profiles not loading - some users are on w2k prof end some use w2k terminal services. It maily complains about not being able to load (or copy) files like "prf23.tmp" - access denied etc. Most of the time if I delete the file in question in eg. "profiledir/Nethood", "profiledir/Application Data/Microsoft/Office/Recent" en when I log on again it works. It now started the profile cannot be loaded bacause some file cannot be copied and when I go delete the file in the profile dir in the samba box and try again as usual it still tells me that the profile "cannot be loaded - logging you in with a temporary profile" - when I click OK a box just pops up saying "profile cannot be loaded - access denied". This seems to be entirely random - different client machines and terminal servers and different user accounts every time. Sometimes I have to restart the w2k terminal server for the problem to go away and sometimes I have to restart smb on the linux box. This always only fixes some of the users' logins but others can't log in again - it also only lasts for about 3 hours that were back when we started. Sometimes I have to completely delete a user's profile and log into w2k for it to be recreated before it works again. I also noticed than if I try to delete the temporary copy of the user's profile in "Documents and Settings" just after I got the problem I get "Access Denied" or "Cannot delete, directory not empty" messages from windows. When this happens, changing the permissions or ever changing the files' ownership to Administrator does not help - I have to restart the machine completely. I was originally runnig samba 2.2.1a and tried upgrading to 2.2.3, 2.2.5 and this morning to 2.2.8a. I also upgraded from redhat 6 to 7 to 7.1 and last week to 8.0 but this does not make any difference. I've tried service pack 2 and 3 on the w2k boxes but to 4 - some of my software does not work when 4 is loaded. Any ideas? Andr? de Koning IT Manager Softline VIP Payroll Tel: +27 12 420 7000 andre@vippayroll.co.za
Andre de Koning schrieb:> yeah, i did check the profile's perms. > No name still the same - I did however upgrade the samba version to > .2.8a - It started before this though - the closest event I can think of > was upgrading the linux box from redhat 7.1 to redhat 8.0 which I think > upgraded samba to 2.2.5.look at 'smbstatus -b' for your version check, if there's different versions of files on your machine (smbd,nmbd). what does the logscripts say? is the problem on a special machine or is it on a special user?> > Andre > > -----Original Message----- > From: kurt weiss [mailto:input.maillists@kwnet.at] > Sent: 10 September 2003 11:43 > To: Andre de Koning > Subject: Re: [Samba] roaming profiles > > > > > Andre de Koning schrieb: > > >>I managed to delete the temporary cached profile on one of the windows > > boxes > >>but when I now log onto that machine with the user in question if get: >> >>Windows cannot log you on because the profile cannot be loaded. Contact >>your network administrator >>DETAIL - Access denied > > > - chown user and chmod 0700 -R on the users profile on the server ? > - did u change the netbios name of the server? > - which smb version u are running now? > > >>I haven't tried w2k sp4 yet - downloading now but what bugs me is that it >>did work before and only gave me problems from time to time - now it >>constantly does it! >> >>any ideas? >> >>Andre >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: kurt weiss [mailto:input.maillists@kwnet.at] >>Sent: 10 September 2003 09:50 >>To: Andre de Koning >>Cc: samba@lists.samba.org >>Subject: Re: [Samba] roaming profiles >> >> >>hi andre >>see below for my comments. >> >>Andre de Koning schrieb: >> >> >> >>>Hi all. >>> >>>I'm runnig samba as a DC with win2k clients using roaming profiles. >>> >>>Since installation I have been experiencing problems with users unable to >>>log in due to their profiles not loading - some users are on w2k prof end >>>some use w2k terminal services. >> >> >>>It maily complains about not being able to load (or copy) files like >>>"prf23.tmp" - access denied etc. >>> >>>Most of the time if I delete the file in question in eg. >>>"profiledir/Nethood", "profiledir/Application >> >>Data/Microsoft/Office/Recent" >> >> >>>en when I log on again it works. >>> >>>It now started the profile cannot be loaded bacause some file cannot be >>>copied and when I go delete the file in the profile dir in the samba box >> >>and >> >> >>>try again as usual it still tells me that the profile "cannot be loaded - >>>logging you in with a temporary profile" - when I click OK a box just pops >>>up saying "profile cannot be loaded - access denied". >>> >>>This seems to be entirely random - different client machines and terminal >>>servers and different user accounts every time. Sometimes I have to >> >>restart >> >> >>>the w2k terminal server for the problem to go away and sometimes I have to >>>restart smb on the linux box. This always only fixes some of the users' >>>logins but others can't log in again - it also only lasts for about 3 >> >>hours >> >> >>>that were back when we started. >>> >>>Sometimes I have to completely delete a user's profile and log into w2k >> >>for >> >> >>>it to be recreated before it works again. >>> >>>I also noticed than if I try to delete the temporary copy of the user's >>>profile in "Documents and Settings" just after I got the problem I get >>>"Access Denied" or "Cannot delete, directory not empty" messages from >>>windows. When this happens, changing the permissions or ever changing the >> >> >>this is the problem... >>your client-side copy is damaged. u *must* get ownership for the broken >>files as administrator, then u can correct the rights. >>this u have to do with *every* broken file. (sh.. i know...) >> >>we had the same problems. for me it seems, that it's a w2k problem. >>especially therefore, that ms has corrected such failures in sp4. >> >>as far as we used samba 2.2.2 we used the switch >>NT ACL SUPPORT = no >>in smb.conf for the profile share to prevent us from this issue. >> >>in samba 2.2.8a all is running fine without this switch. >>but we've allready installed sp4 on *all* our w2k clients. >> >> >> >>>files' ownership to Administrator does not help - I have to restart the >>>machine completely. >> >> >>restarting the client helps? >> >> >> >>>I was originally runnig samba 2.2.1a and tried upgrading to 2.2.3, 2.2.5 >> >>and >> >> >>>this morning to 2.2.8a. I also upgraded from redhat 6 to 7 to 7.1 and >> >>last >> >> >>>week to 8.0 but this does not make any difference. I've tried service >> >>pack >> >> >>>2 and 3 on the w2k boxes but to 4 - some of my software does not work when >> >>4 >> >> >>>is loaded. >> >> >>i've only checked this two configurations: >> >>samba 2.2.2 with 'NT ACL SUPPORT = no' on the profile share >>w2k sp2 and sp3 >> >>samba 2.2.8a *without* 'NT ACL SUPPORT = no' on the profile share >>w2k sp4 >>('NT ACL SUPPORT = no' was not running in this case, but i can't remind >>the symptoms.) >> >>i hope it helped. - let me know >>gk >> >> >> >> >>>Any ideas? >>> >>>Andr? de Koning >>>IT Manager >>>Softline VIP Payroll >>>Tel: +27 12 420 7000 >>>andre@vippayroll.co.za >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > >
Does anyone know of a another way to disable roaming profiles in samba (in smb.conf) on a windows XP network? Thnx. -Dan>Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:55 PM>add;>logon path?my 2 cents;>Keep it on and educate your users on how to use the >desktop as I take it that your roaming profiles may be >getting outta hand and taking a long time to xfer >through your network.>Bri-
How can you disable roaming profiles in Samba 2.2.7a, so that the contents of \Documents and Settings\user\ isn't syncronized at every logon? Alexandru Molodoi IT CONSULTANT,
Hi, Change these 2 parameters to blank. Then noone can can create roaming profile. logon home = "" logon path = "" Manual is the key: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/ProfileMgmt.html Rauno> -----Original Message----- > From: Alexandru Molodoi [mailto:alexandrum@home.ro] > > > How can you disable roaming profiles in Samba 2.2.7a, so that the > contents of \Documents and Settings\user\ isn't syncronized at every > logon?