Everyone, I didn't know where else to call for help. Here it goes. I trying to replace our Win2k PDC with a combination of Samba3-LDAP-PDC. But I'm not having much luck in retaining my user's local profiles, I want this PDC migration to be as simple and transparent as possible, but the new samba pdc doesn't seem to want to recognize the old profiles (same with the clients,even with the same domain name they would not recognize the PDC as the old one). Can anyone help? What must I do to retain my user's local profiles ??? (and I don't want to store the profiles on the server since some of them are huge profiles). Sincerely, ATrillanes
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, kenjie Trillanes wrote:> Everyone, > > I didn't know where else to call for help. Here it goes. I trying to > replace our Win2k PDC with a combination of Samba3-LDAP-PDC. But I'm not > having much luck in retaining my user's local profiles, I want this PDC > migration to be as simple and transparent as possible, but the new samba > pdc doesn't seem to want to recognize the old profiles (same with the > clients,even with the same domain name they would not recognize the PDC > as the old one). Can anyone help? What must I do to retain my user's > local profiles ??? (and I don't want to store the profiles on the server > since some of them are huge profiles).Your choice is either obtain the old PDC SID and store that into your Samba server (See man page for 'net getlocalsid', 'net rpc' sid stuff) or else you need to use the 'profiles' tool to change the SID in the profile NTUser.DAT files to match your Samba domain SID. The 'net' command and the 'profiles' tool are part of Samba-3.0.x. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org
> I didn't know where else to call for help. Here it goes. I trying to > replace our Win2k PDC with a combination of Samba3-LDAP-PDC. > But I'm not > having much luck in retaining my user's local profiles, I > want this PDC > migration to be as simple and transparent as possible, but > the new samba > pdc doesn't seem to want to recognize the old profiles (same with the > clients,even with the same domain name they would not > recognize the PDC > as the old one). Can anyone help? What must I do to retain my user's > local profiles ??? (and I don't want to store the profiles on > the server > since some of them are huge profiles).If you haven't a lot of profiles (or users), you can fix this problem by manual edit the registry. I don't know if it really works, because I had to do this after a Win NT4 to Win2k migration, but maybe it work in your case too: -Log on with the new SID -Now you will find an additional folder in the "Documents and Settings" folder containing the user- and domain name (an maybe other character) -log out, and login in with the local administrator account -open regedit and move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList -you will find several entry's named by SID's -Find the entry from the new user which was created as you logged in before (you recognize it by the ProfileImagePath-Value) -Change this Value to the old profile path -You may have to restart the computer now and it should work Regards, Marco.