samba - Jul 2003 - Storing W2K roaming profiles on a Samba - server

In our company's W2K-domain we decided to put all roaming profiles on 
Samba-servers (RH 9.0 / samba 2.2.8)

The Samba-servers are configured for using DOMAIN-security.

Part of our /etc/smb.conf look like

[Profiles]
path = /usr/local/samba/profiles
comment = Profile-share
browseable = no
writeable = yes
create mode = 0600
directory mode = 0700

We simply copied al the "old" profiles from the W2K-server to Samba,
but
afterwards we are experiencing some very annoying problems.

A number of our users are no longer able to load the local profile when 
starting up their workstation.

Does anyone know what could be wrong here.

Thanks

Ad K.

/usr/local/samba/profiles is writeable by all users.

I have only used the [Profiles] command on Samba when it is being used as a
domain controller.  You say that you have a Windows 2000 domain controller.

I would do the following:

Create a share on the Samba file server.

Create a folder below that one for each user.  The folder's name should be
the same as the username.  The
%username%  command only works when new users are being created.  You need
to manually create the folder for existing users.

Open up each user's account using the Windows 2000 tool and point the users
profile path to the appropriate folder on the Samba server.

Let me know how that works.


"Ad koster" <lidad@zeelandnet.nl> wrote in message
news:bg0hup$r4r$1@main.gmane.org...
> In our company's W2K-domain we decided to put all roaming profiles on
> Samba-servers (RH 9.0 / samba 2.2.8)
>
> The Samba-servers are configured for using DOMAIN-security.
>
> Part of our /etc/smb.conf look like
>
> [Profiles]
> path = /usr/local/samba/profiles
> comment = Profile-share
> browseable = no
> writeable = yes
> create mode = 0600
> directory mode = 0700
>
> We simply copied al the "old" profiles from the W2K-server to
Samba, but
> afterwards we are experiencing some very annoying problems.
>
> A number of our users are no longer able to load the local profile when
> starting up their workstation.
>
> Does anyone know what could be wrong here.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ad K.
>
> /usr/local/samba/profiles is writeable by all users.
>
>
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Check the dile/directory permissions on the Samba box for the profiles you
copied over. This was something stupid I did while copying some profiles
from the Windows server over to the Samba Linux box. I did this with root
permissions, and neglected to change them to the user/group permissions of
the user's account.

This might be obvious to some, but I missed it.