All, I am in the process of moving a PDC to a new server, the config, *.tdb files, linux user account files (/etc/passwd,shadow,group) and /home have all been moved successfully, shares and authentication is working great. Issue: When I login and the system loads my roaming profile all my "recent Programs" list are gone, I cannot add more programs to this list in the start menu (no error just won't show) and it appears other windows settings are not getting properly loaded either (i.e. I have a gray start bar instead of my normal green/blue bar) Background on the move: Old Server: Ubuntu 6.06(i386) running Samba 3.0.22 New Server: Centos 5.2(i386) running Samba 3.0.28 Clients: All Windows XP Pro previously part of the Domain Any one have any advice for solving this issue? Aaron
I tried a similar trick with the added step of changing from a tdbsam backend to ldap and found the same windows profile issue. Strangely if the user was a local or domain admin things were ok. I found the only work around at the time was backup the users profile before deleting it and letting windows create a new one and transferring anything important back from the old profile. In my case the retiring server was CentOS 4.5 and the new one CentOS 5.2 Cheers Kevin Aaron Johnson wrote:> All, > I am in the process of moving a PDC to a new server, the config, *.tdb > files, linux user account files (/etc/passwd,shadow,group) and /home > have all been moved successfully, shares and authentication is working > great. > > Issue: > When I login and the system loads my roaming profile all my "recent > Programs" list are gone, I cannot add more programs to this list in the > start menu (no error just won't show) and it appears other windows > settings are not getting properly loaded either (i.e. I have a gray > start bar instead of my normal green/blue bar) > > Background on the move: > Old Server: > Ubuntu 6.06(i386) running Samba 3.0.22 > > New Server: > Centos 5.2(i386) running Samba 3.0.28 > > Clients: > All Windows XP Pro previously part of the Domain > > Any one have any advice for solving this issue? > > Aaron
First of all, check the domain SID on the new server. It should match the domain SID which was used on the old server. Also make sure, that permissions are correctly set on profile directories. To display the domain SID, type the following on the PDC: net getlocalsid To set the domain SID use "net setlocalsid <SID>" Permissions of profile directories should be set like this: - User ownership: <the usename which the profiles belongs to> - Group ownership: the primary group of the user - Permission for the profile directory: 1777 - Permission for the profile directory of a user: 0700 or 1700 (not sure about it) I hope, I could help you. Regards Gergely Kiss 2008/7/16 Aaron Johnson <aaronjohnson@ajserver.com>:> All, > I am in the process of moving a PDC to a new server, the config, *.tdb > files, linux user account files (/etc/passwd,shadow,group) and /home have > all been moved successfully, shares and authentication is working great. > > Issue: > When I login and the system loads my roaming profile all my "recent > Programs" list are gone, I cannot add more programs to this list in the > start menu (no error just won't show) and it appears other windows settings > are not getting properly loaded either (i.e. I have a gray start bar instead > of my normal green/blue bar) > > Background on the move: > Old Server: > Ubuntu 6.06(i386) running Samba 3.0.22 > > New Server: > Centos 5.2(i386) running Samba 3.0.28 > > Clients: > All Windows XP Pro previously part of the Domain > > Any one have any advice for solving this issue? > > Aaron > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >