samba - Nov 2004 - Logon fails due to "The system cannot find the file specified"

I have a couple of Windows 2000 boxes that only accept logons from users
who have logged onto the system before.  For new  users the logon
appears to succeed, proceeds to "Loading your personal settings" and
then the following error appears -

Windows cannot log you on because the profile cannot be loaded. Contact
your network administrator.

DETAIL - The system cannot find the file specified. 

- after which the user is thrown out.  I've chased this around quite a
bit,  I'm not certain if it is a workstation problem, a Samba problem,
etc...  I have ~200 other Windows 2000/XP workstations that are working.
I've cranked up the debug level and read the logs, and set auditing on
the local filesystem.  Nothing seems to elucidate the cause of the
problem. 

Would be nice if it just came out and said which file couldn't be
found. :)

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Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
| I have a couple of Windows 2000 boxes that only accept logons from users
...
| Would be nice if it just came out and said which file couldn't be
| found. :)

Well, I know your probably a shaper guy than me when it comes to this
kind of stuff but here goes...

Checked for differences in underlying file system permissions between
old user profiles and new user profiles? Have you tried createing a
profile directory manually?  Are the profiles being created at all?
Can you post the testparm output for the profiles and profdata shares?


Jim C.
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Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
| I have a couple of Windows 2000 boxes that only accept logons from users
...
| found. :)

Logically, there has to be something different between the old users and
the new ones.  Because there are some users for whom the samba config
works, I would tend to rule that out as a source of trouble.

Here are some other ideas.  Log into a Windows machine as one of the old
users and open a dos prompt window.  Type "set" (this is equivalent to
typeing "env" on a unix box) and have a look at the user's
environment
variables to see if they are what you would expect.

You could also compare the sambaHomePath and sambaProfilePath settings
between old and new user records, as well as the "logon path" and
"logon
home" settings in smb.conf and see if they jive with what you had in
mind. If not, then you need to check what ever script setup you are
using to add users.



Jim C.
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