samba - Nov 2004 - roaming profiles not saved over VPN

Hello,

I'm currently planning an environment which will survive any disaster 
like domain controller crash:

     PDC02
       |
      VPN
       |
     switch
    |      |
PDC01 client01


PDC01 and PDC02 are domain controllers, and have identical smb.confs.

client01 is a client, has WINS servers set to PDC01 and PDC02.

users / passwords are replicated using LDAP.


Now, under normal operations, clients is authenticated against PDC01 
which is in the same LAN, downloads profile, works, logs off, profile is 
updated.

But when I switch PDC01 off, user can authenticate against PDC02 over 
VPN, but the roaming profile is not transferred after he/she logs out.

Does anyone have any explanation?

PDC01 and PDC02 have *identical* configurations - the only difference is 
that PDC02 is behind a VPN.


Tomek

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently planning an environment which will survive any disaster 
> like domain controller crash:
> 
>     PDC02
>       |
>      VPN
>       |
>     switch
>    |      |
> PDC01 client01
> 
> 
> PDC01 and PDC02 are domain controllers, and have identical smb.confs.
> 
> client01 is a client, has WINS servers set to PDC01 and PDC02.
> 
> users / passwords are replicated using LDAP.
> 
> 
> Now, under normal operations, clients is authenticated against PDC01 
> which is in the same LAN, downloads profile, works, logs off, profile is 
> updated.
> 
> But when I switch PDC01 off, user can authenticate against PDC02 over 
> VPN, but the roaming profile is not transferred after he/she logs out.
> 
> Does anyone have any explanation?
> 
> PDC01 and PDC02 have *identical* configurations - the only difference is 
> that PDC02 is behind a VPN.
It seemed all I have to do was to switch from using tun devices to tap 
devices in my OpenVPN setup...


Tomek