Hello, I have a network, where users want to login with their same username from Windows 2000 and from Windows XP on a samba PDC. When the machines logon, I can see the OS in the logfile of the machine on my server, but i cannot use different profiles for Win2k and WinXP, because the %a in smb.conf always gives back Win2k. The profiles of win2k and winXP aren't compatible, so i can't just ignore this. I hope someone understood my problem and may help me. Klaus -- Klaus Umbach | RapidSolution Software AG Administration | umbach@rapidsolution.de http://www.rapidsolution.de
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Klaus Umbach wrote:> Hello, > I have a network, where users want to login with their same username from > Windows 2000 and from Windows XP on a samba PDC. > When the machines logon, I can see the OS in the logfile of the machine on > my server, but i cannot use different profiles for Win2k and WinXP, because > the %a in smb.conf always gives back Win2k.Win2K is NT 5.0, WinXP is NT 5.1, same family.> The profiles of win2k and winXP aren't compatible, so i can't just ignore this.Correct. Welcome to Windows! The STANDARD that breaks itself!> I hope someone understood my problem and may help me.Your problem is that you have Win2K and WinXP. Correct! Recommended solution is replace both with Linux, oops, not practical, Ok, let's try again, ... Update to WinXP, oops, costly! Argh! Windows - it's the STANDARD! - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Klaus Umbach wrote:> Hello, > I have a network, where users want to login with their same username from > Windows 2000 and from Windows XP on a samba PDC. > When the machines logon, I can see the OS in the logfile of the machine on > my server, but i cannot use different profiles for Win2k and WinXP, because > the %a in smb.conf always gives back Win2k. > > The profiles of win2k and winXP aren't compatible, so i can't just ignore this. > > I hope someone understood my problem and may help me.One thing you could do is to create a Win2K mandatory profile. This way the WinXP stuff will not get written back to the profile share. That is the way I would solve it. Refer to the Win2K Resource Kit for info on how to create a mandatory profile. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org