samba - Apr 2005 - WIN2K with SP4 unab;e to save profiles on a Samba PDC

Hi all,
I have been noticing for a certain time that the Win 2K with Service
Pack 4 wasnt able to save its profile to a Samba PDC. Is this a known
fact or I have a problem ?

I am using 3.0.11 on Fedora Core 3.

regards
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> I have been noticing for a certain time that the Win 2K with Service
> Pack 4 wasnt able to save its profile to a Samba PDC. Is this a known
> fact or I have a problem ?
This is most probably due to additional permissions checks Microsoft introduced
in some patch leading to SP4, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327462/ .

One way to cure this is to set a registry key on the clients, see
http://www.samba-tng.org/docs/tng/windows-registry-patches/WinXP_RoamingProfiles.reg

(This also works on W2k.)

Kind regards,
Wolfgang Ratzka
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Thanx so much for the pointers..

Just for the sake of completing the issue, I did what was told and the
problem vanished. but to my surprise, even Win2K with SP2 was had
problems with profiles. I did as I did in Win2k SP4 and the problem was
solved.

But to be doubly sure, just wanted to put this question in general,
that is this problem well documented in samba docs, (I did not find it)
as many PDC admins will be facing this problem.

One more thing noticed was that only the Administrator user was unable
to save the profiles, all other users were being able to save and read
there profiles well. After changing the regs as suggested everything
was working as usual...

regards
On Apr 5, 2005 4:05 PM, GLOWFRIEND <glowfriend@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have been noticing for a certain time that the Win 2K with Service
> Pack 4 wasnt able to save its profile to a Samba PDC. Is this a known
> fact or I have a problem ?
> 
> I am using 3.0.11 on Fedora Core 3.
> 
> regards
> --
> You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow
> from flying over your head,
> but you can prevent them from
> building nests in your hair.
> 

-- 
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow 
from flying over your head, 
but you can prevent them from 
building nests in your hair.