It seems weird. On 75% of my machines, it creates accounts as: c:\documents and settings\username on 25% of the machines, it creates them as: c:\docments and settings\username.DOMAINNAME These are fresh machines, so it's unclear to me where this behavior stems from. We're not using roaming profiles. Does anyone have any idea as to why this happens? thanks Chris
On 7/28/2008, Christopher Perry (cperry@hmdc.harvard.edu) wrote:> on 25% of the machines, it creates them as: > c:\docments and settings\username.DOMAINNAMEIt only does this if there is already a LOCAL user account in use with that same username. This is well documented behavior. -- Best regards, Charles
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Christopher Perry <cperry@hmdc.harvard.edu> wrote:> It seems weird. On 75% of my machines, it creates accounts as: > c:\documents and settings\username > > on 25% of the machines, it creates them as: > c:\docments and settings\username.DOMAINNAME > > These are fresh machines, so it's unclear to me where this behavior stems > from. We're not using roaming profiles. > > Does anyone have any idea as to why this happens? >Do any of these users have local windows accounts on the new machines? John
BTW, this happens in a Windows (2000 an up, at least, afaik...) server domain as well. Not related to Samba, basically. Dennis> -----Original Message----- > From: samba-bounces+dmcleod=foranyauto.com@lists.samba.org > [mailto:samba-bounces+dmcleod=foranyauto.com@lists.samba.org] > On Behalf Of Christopher Perry > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:15 AM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] weird Windows profile creation > > It seems weird. On 75% of my machines, it creates accounts as: > c:\documents and settings\username > > on 25% of the machines, it creates them as: > c:\docments and settings\username.DOMAINNAME > > These are fresh machines, so it's unclear to me where this > behavior stems from. We're not using roaming profiles. > > Does anyone have any idea as to why this happens? > > thanks > Chris > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
If the username already exists on the machine as a local account, and then you join the domain and logon with the same username, it creates this. That is how it distinguishes the two different (in it's opinion) usernames. Make sure you have no local accounts (using usernames you want to use) on the machine before you join the domain. HTH, Dennis> -----Original Message----- > From: samba-bounces+dmcleod=foranyauto.com@lists.samba.org > [mailto:samba-bounces+dmcleod=foranyauto.com@lists.samba.org] > On Behalf Of Christopher Perry > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:15 AM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] weird Windows profile creation > > It seems weird. On 75% of my machines, it creates accounts as: > c:\documents and settings\username > > on 25% of the machines, it creates them as: > c:\docments and settings\username.DOMAINNAME > > These are fresh machines, so it's unclear to me where this > behavior stems from. We're not using roaming profiles. > > Does anyone have any idea as to why this happens? > > thanks > Chris > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba