Problem: Upon logging on with a stupid windows machine (2000 and XP), it complains about not being able to copy a file or directory to a local location with "DETAIL - Access is denied" at the bottom of the message. Then the next message says that windows cannot load the profile and is using a temporary profile. Details: (A) The file or directory in question DOES EXIST with the correct permissions. (B) User profiles are on a separate share (dir 0700, file 0600) (C) Everything works if I delete the user profile and he/she logs in/out again... but soon screws up when logging in on multiple computers with different versions of windows, etc. I have no idea what's going in the log files (debug level 3). I found a NT_STATUS_INVALID_LEVEL when it mentions the problem file, then it tries to load a bunch of dll files and Samba gives a NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE error. I'm guessing that these dll files are requested by NTUSER.DAT/INI and are not on every workstation. Can I do anything to tell windows to ignore these errors and continue copying the profile?? This message should really go to a windows mailing list, but Linux people usually are smarter and know what they're doing... Thanks in advance!!!! Paul Miller
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 14:56, Paul Miller wrote:> (C) Everything works if I delete the user profile and he/she logs in/out > again... but soon screws up when logging in on multiple computers with > different versions of windows, etc.This is just a quick guess, but do you have your client machines synchronize their time with the Samba server (or whatever time server that you may have available)? I've never had this type of problem so I may be totally wrong, but I saw someone mention on this list (a fairly long time ago) that if the time is not properly synchronized, it may cause a problem when downloading/uploading profiles. This is because Windows relies on this to determine whether or not to update the local profile data. Just a thought. Kohei