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André Egerer

2010-Feb-22 14:57 UTC

[Samba] Problem with Windows 7 and roaming profiles

Hello together,

we try to setup a samba domain controller with LDAP and roaming profiles for
Win7-Clients.
Everything looks fine last Friday but today the clients did not longer save
changes to the profiles. There is no error in samba log and also no in the
windows log. If I delete a profile from a client it is loaded correctly at next
logon, but the changes are not saved at logout.

Windows XP profiles are working well all the time...

Any ideas?

OS: Debian Etch
Kernel: 2.6.24
Samba: 3.4.5
Disk is mounted with "user_xattr"


[profiles]
        path = /home/samba/profiles
        comment = roaming profiles
        create mask = 0600
        directory mask = 0700
        browsable = no
        writable = yes
        read only = no
        store dos attributes = yes



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Andr? Egerer
Diplom-Wirtschaftsinformatiker
Technischer Leiter SmartCom Center

Quintec GmbH
Siemensstr. 2-4
90766 F?rth
Tel: 0911 7667014
Fax.: 0911 7667015

www.quintec.de
QUINTEC Ges. f?r Datentechnik mbH
Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Konrad Trosky, Firmensitz Overath, Amtsgericht K?ln, HR B
46046

Alex Ferrara

2010-Feb-22 15:09 UTC

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[Samba] Problem with Windows 7 and roaming profiles

Hi Andre,

I have a site with all Windows 7 Professional 64bit clients, and Samba 3.4.3
with an LDAP backend. Roaming profiles are working great.

A few things come to mind.

Disk space on the profile path
Permissions on the directory

Does Windows give any error messages on logout? What filesystem are you using?

aF

On 23/02/2010, at 1:57 AM, Andr? Egerer wrote:
> Hello together,
> 
> we try to setup a samba domain controller with LDAP and roaming profiles
for Win7-Clients.
> Everything looks fine last Friday but today the clients did not longer save
changes to the profiles. There is no error in samba log and also no in the
windows log. If I delete a profile from a client it is loaded correctly at next
logon, but the changes are not saved at logout.
> 
> Windows XP profiles are working well all the time...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> OS: Debian Etch
> Kernel: 2.6.24
> Samba: 3.4.5
> Disk is mounted with "user_xattr"
> 
> 
> [profiles]
>        path = /home/samba/profiles
>        comment = roaming profiles
>        create mask = 0600
>        directory mask = 0700
>        browsable = no
>        writable = yes
>        read only = no
>        store dos attributes = yes
> 
> 
> 
> ---
> Andr? Egerer
> Diplom-Wirtschaftsinformatiker
> Technischer Leiter SmartCom Center
> 
> Quintec GmbH
> Siemensstr. 2-4
> 90766 F?rth
> Tel: 0911 7667014
> Fax.: 0911 7667015
> 
> www.quintec.de
> QUINTEC Ges. f?r Datentechnik mbH
> Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Konrad Trosky, Firmensitz Overath, Amtsgericht K?ln, HR B
46046
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André Egerer

2010-Feb-22 15:21 UTC

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[Samba] Problem with Windows 7 and roaming profiles

Hi Alex,

thanks for your fast reply.

Here the rights.
The profiles directory:
drwxrwxrwx 6  777 root 4096 2010-02-22 16:14 profiles

A profile:
drwx------ 15 andre.drei primgroup 4096 2010-02-19 11:12 andre.drei.V2

Space should be enough:
/dev/md3              454G   32G  400G   8% /store

The file system is ext3.

Good to hear that it can work :-)!

> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Alex Ferrara [mailto:alex at receptiveit.com.au]
> Gesendet: Montag, 22. Februar 2010 16:09
> An: Andr? Egerer
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Betreff: Re: [Samba] Problem with Windows 7 and roaming profiles
> 
> Hi Andre,
> 
> I have a site with all Windows 7 Professional 64bit clients, and Samba
> 3.4.3 with an LDAP backend. Roaming profiles are working great.
> 
> A few things come to mind.
> 
> Disk space on the profile path
> Permissions on the directory
> 
> Does Windows give any error messages on logout? What filesystem are you
> using?
> 
> aF
> 
> On 23/02/2010, at 1:57 AM, Andr? Egerer wrote:
> 
> > Hello together,
> >
> > we try to setup a samba domain controller with LDAP and roaming
> profiles for Win7-Clients.
> > Everything looks fine last Friday but today the clients did not
> longer save changes to the profiles. There is no error in samba log and
> also no in the windows log. If I delete a profile from a client it is
> loaded correctly at next logon, but the changes are not saved at
> logout.
> >
> > Windows XP profiles are working well all the time...
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > OS: Debian Etch
> > Kernel: 2.6.24
> > Samba: 3.4.5
> > Disk is mounted with "user_xattr"
> >
> >
> > [profiles]
> >        path = /home/samba/profiles
> >        comment = roaming profiles
> >        create mask = 0600
> >        directory mask = 0700
> >        browsable = no
> >        writable = yes
> >        read only = no
> >        store dos attributes = yes
> >
> >
> >
> > ---
> > Andr? Egerer
> > Diplom-Wirtschaftsinformatiker
> > Technischer Leiter SmartCom Center
> >
> > Quintec GmbH
> > Siemensstr. 2-4
> > 90766 F?rth
> > Tel: 0911 7667014
> > Fax.: 0911 7667015
> >
> > www.quintec.de
> > QUINTEC Ges. f?r Datentechnik mbH
> > Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Konrad Trosky, Firmensitz Overath, Amtsgericht
> K?ln, HR B 46046
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> > instructions:  https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba

John Drescher

2010-Feb-22 15:35 UTC

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On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Andr? Egerer <andre.egerer at
quintec.de> wrote:> Hi Alex,
>
> thanks for your fast reply.
>
> Here the rights.
> The profiles directory:
> drwxrwxrwx 6 ?777 root 4096 2010-02-22 16:14 profiles
>
> A profile:
> drwx------ 15 andre.drei primgroup 4096 2010-02-19 11:12 andre.drei.V2
>
> Space should be enough:
> /dev/md3 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?454G ? 32G ?400G ? 8% /store
>
> The file system is ext3.
>
> Good to hear that it can work :-)!
>
I have had some problems with this. One problem is caused by windows
7. I mean if I install an application and it needs to be elevated (UAC
prompt) and this elevation puts files in my profile that I do not have
permissions on in windows 7, windows pops up a box saying that my
profile was not fully synchronized. The interesting thing is it is
complaining about C: not my network side of the equation..

I have tried to eliminate this by adding excluded folders in

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ExcludeProfileDirs

I needed to do that anyways because my profile had in 4 days grown to
over 8GB (and thousands of files) causing windows to take 5 to 10
minutes to logon/logoff over a gigabit network.

John

André Egerer

2010-Feb-22 16:09 UTC

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[Samba] Problem with Windows 7 and roaming profiles

Thanks, but this is not the same problem. I do not get any error like "not
fully synchronized". It syncs absolutly nothing (files on desktop, "my
documents", etc). And there is no error in the windows event log...

> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: John Drescher [mailto:drescherjm at gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Montag, 22. Februar 2010 16:36
> An: Andr? Egerer
> Cc: Alex Ferrara; samba at lists.samba.org
> Betreff: Re: [Samba] Problem with Windows 7 and roaming profiles
> 
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Andr? Egerer
> <andre.egerer at quintec.de> wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > thanks for your fast reply.
> >
> > Here the rights.
> > The profiles directory:
> > drwxrwxrwx 6  777 root 4096 2010-02-22 16:14 profiles
> >
> > A profile:
> > drwx------ 15 andre.drei primgroup 4096 2010-02-19 11:12
> andre.drei.V2
> >
> > Space should be enough:
> > /dev/md3              454G   32G  400G   8% /store
> >
> > The file system is ext3.
> >
> > Good to hear that it can work :-)!
> >
> 
> I have had some problems with this. One problem is caused by windows
> 7. I mean if I install an application and it needs to be elevated (UAC
> prompt) and this elevation puts files in my profile that I do not have
> permissions on in windows 7, windows pops up a box saying that my
> profile was not fully synchronized. The interesting thing is it is
> complaining about C: not my network side of the equation..
> 
> I have tried to eliminate this by adding excluded folders in
> 
> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ExcludeProfileDirs
> 
> I needed to do that anyways because my profile had in 4 days grown to
> over 8GB (and thousands of files) causing windows to take 5 to 10
> minutes to logon/logoff over a gigabit network.
> 
> John

John Drescher

2010-Feb-22 16:15 UTC

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[Samba] Problem with Windows 7 and roaming profiles

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Andr? Egerer <andre.egerer at
quintec.de> wrote:> Thanks, but this is not the same problem. I do not get any error like
"not fully synchronized". It syncs absolutly nothing (files on
desktop, "my documents", etc). And there is no error in the windows
event log...
>
Where is your profiles.v2? This is needed for Vista and above.

[profiles.v2]


John

Cain, Marc

2010-Feb-22 17:03 UTC

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[Samba] Problem with Windows 7 and roaming profiles

Hi Andre,

The behavior you are seeing is particularly indicative of Windows
"mandatory" profile behaviors where the user's ntuser.dat has been
renamed on the samba profile share to ntuser.man.  I'm not saying this is
the case but it sure sounds like it.

Regards,

Marc Cain


On Feb 22, 2010, at 6:57 AM, Andr? Egerer wrote:
> Hello together,
> 
> we try to setup a samba domain controller with LDAP and roaming profiles
for Win7-Clients.
> Everything looks fine last Friday but today the clients did not longer save
changes to the profiles. There is no error in samba log and also no in the
windows log. If I delete a profile from a client it is loaded correctly at next
logon, but the changes are not saved at logout.
> 
> Windows XP profiles are working well all the time...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> OS: Debian Etch
> Kernel: 2.6.24
> Samba: 3.4.5
> Disk is mounted with "user_xattr"
> 
> 
> [profiles]
>        path = /home/samba/profiles
>        comment = roaming profiles
>        create mask = 0600
>        directory mask = 0700
>        browsable = no
>        writable = yes
>        read only = no
>        store dos attributes = yes
> 
> 
> 
> ---
> Andr? Egerer
> Diplom-Wirtschaftsinformatiker
> Technischer Leiter SmartCom Center
> 
> Quintec GmbH
> Siemensstr. 2-4
> 90766 F?rth
> Tel: 0911 7667014
> Fax.: 0911 7667015
> 
> www.quintec.de
> QUINTEC Ges. f?r Datentechnik mbH
> Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Konrad Trosky, Firmensitz Overath, Amtsgericht K?ln, HR B
46046
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> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
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Dale Schroeder

2010-Feb-22 19:15 UTC

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[Samba] Problem with Windows 7 and roaming profiles

To reinforce what John wrote:

http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2007-April/052674.html


On 02/22/2010 8:57 AM, Andr? Egerer wrote:> Hello together,
>
> we try to setup a samba domain controller with LDAP and roaming profiles
for Win7-Clients.
> Everything looks fine last Friday but today the clients did not longer save
changes to the profiles. There is no error in samba log and also no in the
windows log. If I delete a profile from a client it is loaded correctly at next
logon, but the changes are not saved at logout.
>
> Windows XP profiles are working well all the time...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> OS: Debian Etch
> Kernel: 2.6.24
> Samba: 3.4.5
> Disk is mounted with "user_xattr"
>
>
> [profiles]
>          path = /home/samba/profiles
>          comment = roaming profiles
>          create mask = 0600
>          directory mask = 0700
>          browsable = no
>          writable = yes
>          read only = no
>          store dos attributes = yes
>
>
>
> ---
> Andr? Egerer
> Diplom-Wirtschaftsinformatiker
> Technischer Leiter SmartCom Center
>
> Quintec GmbH
> Siemensstr. 2-4
> 90766 F?rth
> Tel: 0911 7667014
> Fax.: 0911 7667015
>
> www.quintec.de
> QUINTEC Ges. f?r Datentechnik mbH
> Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Konrad Trosky, Firmensitz Overath, Amtsgericht K?ln, HR B
46046
>

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