Gordon Pritchard
2003-May-23 23:22 UTC
[Samba] Roaming Profile not found - replacement PDC
Howdy everyone: Here's an interesting one: I have joined a machine to the domain, and I log on. Then, I get a message to the effect that the user's roaming profile couldn't be [loaded or found?], and a local profile will be used instead (and actually this also fails, but is not the point of my question... I don't think). Background ========= I took my previous PDC, and simply copied over all the user files and directories to the replacement PDC of the same name. I created same-named users on the new machine (LDAP) and checked that the directories and files are appropriately owned (they are): root@trainwreck:/home/samba/profiles-> ls -al total 4 drwxr-xrwt 7 root root 176 May 9 14:54 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 May 9 14:31 .. drwxr-xrwt 13 administrator Domain Admins 488 May 9 14:42 administrator drwxr-xrwt 14 chris Domain Admins 512 May 9 14:31 chris drwxr-xrwt 13 gordonp Domain Admins 488 May 9 14:31 gordonp drwxr-xrwt 13 margaret Domain Admins 488 May 9 14:31 margaret drwxr-xrwt 13 root Domain Admins 488 May 9 14:31 root So, the user-data exists. Why won't the WinXP client load it? Would there be a conflicting SID or something in my carried-over NTUSER.DAT file? What should I do to correct this situation...? TIA, -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager | Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n gordonp@sfu.ca | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.268.7509 | Amateur Radio: VA7SFU, VA7GP
Gordon Pritchard
2003-May-23 23:26 UTC
[Samba] Roaming Profile not found - replacement PDC
Howdy everyone: Forgot to mention: Samba 2.2.7 (with LDAP, from rpm [not self-compiled]) RedHat Linux 9 as PDC WinXP client, all patched up Here's an interesting one: I have joined a machine to the domain, and I log on. Then, I get a message to the effect that the user's roaming profile couldn't be [loaded or found?], and a local profile will be used instead (and actually this also fails, but is not the point of my question... I don't think). Background ========= I took my previous PDC, and simply copied over all the user files and directories to the replacement PDC of the same name. I created same-named users on the new machine (LDAP) and checked that the directories and files are appropriately owned (they are): root@trainwreck:/home/samba/profiles-> ls -al total 4 drwxr-xrwt 7 root root 176 May 9 14:54 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 May 9 14:31 .. drwxr-xrwt 13 administrator Domain Admins 488 May 9 14:42 administrator drwxr-xrwt 14 chris Domain Admins 512 May 9 14:31 chris drwxr-xrwt 13 gordonp Domain Admins 488 May 9 14:31 gordonp drwxr-xrwt 13 margaret Domain Admins 488 May 9 14:31 margaret drwxr-xrwt 13 root Domain Admins 488 May 9 14:31 root So, the user-data exists. Why won't the WinXP client load it? Would there be a conflicting SID or something in my carried-over NTUSER.DAT file? What should I do to correct this situation...? TIA, -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager | Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n gordonp@sfu.ca | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.268.7509 | Amateur Radio: VA7SFU, VA7GP
I think there are a couple solutions to this..I went through it myself.. samba side: you can set the /etc/samba/smb.conf login path = login home = or, on the XP side use gpedit.msc and change ENABLE 'use local profiles only' I dont remeber the exact key path, but I made a post of it monday of last week when I went through this as well. dejanews microsoft.public for 'disable romaing profiles xp'> -----Original Message----- > From: Gordon Pritchard [mailto:gordonp@sfu.ca] > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 6:27 PM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] Roaming Profile not found - replacement PDC > > > Howdy everyone: > > Forgot to mention: > > Samba 2.2.7 (with LDAP, from rpm [not self-compiled]) > RedHat Linux 9 as PDC > WinXP client, all patched up > > > Here's an interesting one: > > I have joined a machine to the domain, and I log on. > Then, I get a > message to the effect that the user's roaming profile couldn't be > [loaded or found?], and a local profile will be used instead (and > actually this also fails, but is not the point of my > question... I don't > think). > > > Background > =========> > I took my previous PDC, and simply copied over all the > user files and > directories to the replacement PDC of the same name. I created > same-named users on the new machine (LDAP) and checked that the > directories and files are appropriately owned (they are): > > root@trainwreck:/home/samba/profiles-> ls -al > total 4 > drwxr-xrwt 7 root root 176 May 9 14:54 . > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 May 9 14:31 .. > drwxr-xrwt 13 administrator Domain Admins 488 May 9 14:42 > administrator > drwxr-xrwt 14 chris Domain Admins 512 May 9 14:31 chris > drwxr-xrwt 13 gordonp Domain Admins 488 May 9 14:31 gordonp > drwxr-xrwt 13 margaret Domain Admins 488 May 9 14:31 margaret > drwxr-xrwt 13 root Domain Admins 488 May 9 14:31 root > > So, the user-data exists. > > Why won't the WinXP client load it? Would there be a > conflicting SID > or something in my carried-over NTUSER.DAT file? What should I do to > correct this situation...? > > TIA, > -Gord > > -- > Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and > Research Labs Manager | Electronics Engineers > Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n > gordonp@sfu.ca | Telephone Pioneers of America > phone: 604.268.7509 | Amateur Radio: VA7SFU, VA7GP > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
sorry Gordon, I thought you wanted to turn profiles off... ok, on that note, there were some XP keys that needed tweaking one was DISABLE profile ownership and something else, I stumbled across these while trying to do the opposite... I made note of them in the post earlier this week> -----Original Message----- > From: Gordon Pritchard [mailto:gordonp@sfu.ca] > Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 11:01 AM > To: Chris McKeever > Cc: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: RE: [Samba] Roaming Profile not found - replacement PDC > > > On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 07:59, Chris McKeever wrote: > > > I think there are a couple solutions to this..I went > through it myself.. > > > > samba side: you can set the /etc/samba/smb.conf > > login path = > > login home = > > > > or, on the XP side use gpedit.msc and change > > ENABLE 'use local profiles only' > > I think this would make my WinXP box use Local > Profiles, right? I > definitely do not want that!!! I want roaming profiles only, so that > any user could sit at any WinXP box, and continue with their > environment. > > > I dont remeber the exact key path, but I made a post of it > monday of last > > week when I went through this as well. dejanews > microsoft.public for > > 'disable romaing profiles xp' > > :-( > > I am continuing to look at my difficulty, but social > obligations this > weekend limit my efforts... > > I am guilty of forgetting to mention that my goal is to > enable roamng > profiles, as I had before I replaced my old PDC. At least, the > user-data is all there, it's a matter of gaining access. > > > > > I have joined a machine to the domain, and I log on. > > > Then, I get a > > > message to the effect that the user's roaming profile couldn't be > > > [loaded or found?], and a local profile will be used instead > > > > > > Background > > > =========> > > > > > I took my previous PDC, and simply copied over all the > > > user files and > > > directories to the replacement PDC of the same name. > > Thanks for your reply, Chris. > > -Gord >