samba - Oct 2003 - Samba PDC and Windows 2000 roaming profiles problem

I have strange problem with Samba PDC and windows 2000 pro (sp3 and sp4) 
clients. The Samba is acting as PDC and the windows are joined in the domain 
with roaming profiles to users. Everything works fine until I log out from 
windows or shutdown the workstation. During logout or shutdown process the 
roaming profile is unloaded back to Samba server. When I next time log in or 
start the windows and examine the windows aplication log I found the 
following:

Windows cannot unload your registry file.  If you have a roaming profile, 
your settings are not replicated. Contact your administrator.

DETAIL - Access is denied. , Build number ((2195))

This happens randomly and when it happens the logout from windows took quite 
long time. At same time the files under roaming profile aren´t updated. 
Atleast timestamps in the files are not updated (example NTUSER.DAT). It 
seems that this happens in Samba versions 2.2.5 and 2.2.7. File permissions 
are set 1757 at the /home/samba/profiles and the profiles sections in 
smb.conf is following:

[profiles]
    path = /home/samba/profiles
    browseable = no
    read only = no
    create mask = 0700
    directory mask = 0700


Pete

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Nice to no that I´m not the only one with this problem. I haven´t got any 
time to test this since last friday but tomorrow I will continue with this 
case.

You mentioned that this problem wanishes if the print spooler is restarted 
regular intervals. Did you mean the Linux printing daemon or something else? 
  How does it effect if the printer section is left out complety?

Could you send the UHPClean to my other address: werrew74@sunpoint.net 
because this box capacity is very small and it fills out so rapidly at least 
after I joiden to samba mailing list.

Times are synchronised between Linux and those w2k workstations with help 
of: time server = yes in the smb.conf file and the netlogon.bat holds in the 
"net time \myPDC /set /yes" statement which is handled just right.

Has anybody experienced that is this still a problem with Samba 3.x 
versions?

Pete
>From: Mike Samba <samba@astroshapes.com>
>To: Pete **** <p_e_t_e51@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba PDC and Windows 2000 roaming profiles problem
>Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:21:39 -0500
>
>I had the same problem and went absoultely nuts!!  The problem seemed to
>be with the print spooler.  If you shut down the spooler and start it
>back up at regular intervals, the problem seems to go away.
>
>I had another user help me and he sent me a file that Microsoft gave him
>called UHPClean.  What it does is monitor the log offs and then force
>the registry hives closed, which lets go of your NTUSER.DAT files.  I
>have not had a problem since!!
>
>If you want a copy of it, let me know!
>
>Also, MAKE SURE YOUR TIMES ARE IDENTICAL ON ALL MACHINES!!!!  This will
>make some for some strange roaming profile problems.
>
>Mike
>
>On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 02:28, Pete **** wrote:
> > I have strange problem with Samba PDC and windows 2000 pro (sp3 and
sp4)
> > clients. The Samba is acting as PDC and the windows are joined in the 
>domain
> > with roaming profiles to users. Everything works fine until I log out 
>from
> > windows or shutdown the workstation. During logout or shutdown process
>the
> > roaming profile is unloaded back to Samba server. When I next time log
>in or
> > start the windows and examine the windows aplication log I found the
> > following:
> >
> > Windows cannot unload your registry file.  If you have a roaming 
>profile,
> > your settings are not replicated. Contact your administrator.
> >
> > DETAIL - Access is denied. , Build number ((2195))
> >
> > This happens randomly and when it happens the logout from windows took
>quite
> > long time. At same time the files under roaming profile arent updated.
> > Atleast timestamps in the files are not updated (example NTUSER.DAT).
It
> > seems that this happens in Samba versions 2.2.5 and 2.2.7. File 
>permissions
> > are set 1757 at the /home/samba/profiles and the profiles sections in
> > smb.conf is following:
> >
> > [profiles]
> >     path = /home/samba/profiles
> >     browseable = no
> >     read only = no
> >     create mask = 0700
> >     directory mask = 0700
> >
> >
> > Pete
> >
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