samba - Aug 2005 - WinXP maps home drive to logon home

Hi,

I am having a "logon home" problem. I have a mixture of Win98 and
WinXP
machines and regardless which I use to connect to the Samba server, it
will try to map the home drive to what I have set the "logon home = "
to.

This is the line .. "logon home = \\%N\profile.%U"
The user is admin
This is the error I see in the syslog from a Win98 Machine:
    lab_thinkpad (192.168.30.180) couldn't find service profile.admin
and from a WinXP machine:
    genserv-lab4 (192.168.30.184) couldn't find service profile.admin

If I create a folder in the home share called "profile.admin", then 
WinXP will map the Home drive to it instead of the parent of 
profile.admin. If I remove the logon home line from the smb.conf file, 
WinXP will map the Home drive to the home share root correctly, but the 
Win98 client will put the profile information in the home share root, 
and I want it in a folder called profile.%U under the home share.

This is the full smb.conf:
[global]
    netbios name = Samba-1
    workgroup = TESTGROUP
    log file = /var/log/samba/%U.log
    syslog = 1
    max log size = 1000
    time server = Yes
    add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 110 -s 
/bin/false -M %u
    logon script = logon.bat
    logon path = \\%N\Profiles\%U
    logon home = \\%N\profile.%U
    logon drive = H:
    domain logons = Yes
    domain master = Yes
    wins support = Yes
    security = user
    os level = 65
    admin users = admin, ron

[netlogon]
    path = /usr/local/samba/lib/netlogon
    browseable = No

[homes]
    read only = No
    browseable = No
    guest ok = No
    map archive = No

[profiles]
    path = /home/testshare/%g/Profiles
    browsable = no
    writable = yes
    create mask = 0600
    directory mask = 0700
#end

The logon.bat file is:
@echo on
net use H: /home
pause

The server is a Mandrake 10.1 (before Mandriva), but samba is NOT an
RPM, it's from samba.org source version 3.0.14a, configured with the 
following arguments:
$ ./configure --bindir=/usr/local/bin --sbindir=/usr/local/sbin
--sysconfdir=/etc --with-msdfs --with-smbwrapper --with-smbmount
--with-quotas --with-acl-support --with-syslog

I've RTFM for the last 2 solid 16 hour days, I'm baffled.

I would very much appreciate any help anyone out there can offer.

Thanks,
R Smith

Ron Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having a "logon home" problem. I have a mixture of Win98 and
WinXP
> machines and regardless which I use to connect to the Samba server, it
> will try to map the home drive to what I have set the "logon home =
" to.
That's not quite correct, only the WinXP machine will try to use the 
value of "logon home" as the home folder.
> This is the line .. "logon home = \\%N\profile.%U"
> The user is admin
> This is the error I see in the syslog from a Win98 Machine:
>    lab_thinkpad (192.168.30.180) couldn't find service profile.admin
> and from a WinXP machine:
>    genserv-lab4 (192.168.30.184) couldn't find service profile.admin
> 
> If I create a folder in the home share called "profile.admin",
then
> WinXP will map the Home drive to it instead of the parent of 
> profile.admin. If I remove the logon home line from the smb.conf file, 
> WinXP will map the Home drive to the home share root correctly, but the 
> Win98 client will put the profile information in the home share root, 
> and I want it in a folder called profile.%U under the home share.
I'm replying to my own post ....
I still don't know why a Windows XP machine will try to use the "logon 
home" value as it's home folder instead of what's in the
/etc/passwd
file on the Samba PDC, but until I find out, I came up with a 
work-around. I changed "logon home = \\%N\profile.%U" to "logon
home =
\\%N\profile.%a", so that when a user at a Win98 machine logs on, his 
profile is stored in the profile.Win95 folder. When that user is at a 
WinXP machine and logs on, it looks for a profile.WinXP folder, doesn't 
find it and uses the correct home folder instead.

R Smith