I lost my Samba machine to a bad disk a few weeks ago, and I had to start from scratch. It was a small home machine and I didn't have backups. However, I make use of profiles and the Win2000 machine is now all screwed up -- it attempts to make new profiles for some users, with some success. If I try to set the permissions on the local Win2k machine to allow control by the user it belongs to on the domain, much of the profile works, but nothing sticks -- changes to settings don't take effect and the wallpaper actually doesn't display except when initially logging in. Basically, what this question boils down to: How do you recover from something like this? What it the proper way to, without backups, regenerate a machine and not have any trouble on the clients. Wipe out all of the local machine's profiles folders? I have a feeling that won't work either. If someone has the secret, let me know please! ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | novosirj@umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630
On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 00:05, Ryan Novosielski wrote:> I lost my Samba machine to a bad disk a few weeks ago, and I had to start > from scratch. It was a small home machine and I didn't have backups. > However, I make use of profiles and the Win2000 machine is now all screwed > up -- it attempts to make new profiles for some users, with some success.> Basically, what this question boils down to: How do you recover from > something like this? What it the proper way to, without backups, > regenerate a machine and not have any trouble on the clients. Wipe out all > of the local machine's profiles folders? I have a feeling that won't work > either.I am facing a similar situation, but it was of my own making :-o I had a working PDC setup, but it was slow and the hard-drive was puny. So, created a new machine, to become the new PDC. I kept the old machine for reference (moving it's IP-address up by one, and having the new PDC take over the IP-address of the original PDC). The Domain name is the same... When looking through things, I note that all the uid's are different. I also put some former-Users into the new setup as Domain Admins (hey, my son has to learn to install games *himself* :-) ). And now, I cannot join the WinXP client to the domain. I get a cryptic (WinXP) message about multiple connections to a server/resource with different names but the same UID??? Samba logs (at level 3) show thing looking good. I am guessing that the WinXP client has a whack of user-info cached locally, and the new PDC with differing uid's is confusing it. Like you, I am not sure how to best deal with this situation. As a last resort, if I pick up some beer on the way home, I may wipe/reinstall the WinXP client, and see if a "cache-less" retry is any better :-) -Gord
Hi, You could use what AJ Dawson recommended, delete winbind??.tdb as it was caching the users. Hope it helps. Cheers, Mun Heng, Ow H/M Engineering Western Digital M'sia DID : 03-7870 5168 -----Original Message----- From: Gordon Pritchard [mailto:gordonp@sfu.ca] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 12:04 AM To: Ryan Novosielski Cc: Samba Mailing List Subject: Re: [Samba] Profiles after a Samba machine rebuild On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 00:05, Ryan Novosielski wrote:> I lost my Samba machine to a bad disk a few weeks ago, and I had to start > from scratch. It was a small home machine and I didn't have backups. > However, I make use of profiles and the Win2000 machine is now all screwed > up -- it attempts to make new profiles for some users, with some success.> Basically, what this question boils down to: How do you recover from > something like this? What it the proper way to, without backups, > regenerate a machine and not have any trouble on the clients. Wipe out all > of the local machine's profiles folders? I have a feeling that won't work > either.I am facing a similar situation, but it was of my own making :-o I had a working PDC setup, but it was slow and the hard-drive was puny. So, created a new machine, to become the new PDC. I kept the old machine for reference (moving it's IP-address up by one, and having the new PDC take over the IP-address of the original PDC). The Domain name is the same... When looking through things, I note that all the uid's are different. I also put some former-Users into the new setup as Domain Admins (hey, my son has to learn to install games *himself* :-) ). And now, I cannot join the WinXP client to the domain. I get a cryptic (WinXP) message about multiple connections to a server/resource with different names but the same UID??? Samba logs (at level 3) show thing looking good. I am guessing that the WinXP client has a whack of user-info cached locally, and the new PDC with differing uid's is confusing it. Like you, I am not sure how to best deal with this situation. As a last resort, if I pick up some beer on the way home, I may wipe/reinstall the WinXP client, and see if a "cache-less" retry is any better :-) -Gord