Douglas Phillipson
2011-Feb-09 19:47 UTC
[Samba] Moving from SAMBA to 2003 domain with XP SP# client machines roaming profiles stopped working
We have been directed to move off a SAMBA domain to a server 2003R2 domain. We run roaming profiles with samba and would like to continue this on 2003R2. After bringing all the XPSP3 desktops into the 2003R2 domain, roaming profiles wont work. I'm not even trying to use the SAMBA generated profiles. The error I get when logging on is: *Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you logoff. Errors in the event viewer are: DETAIL - Configuration information could not be read from the domain controller, either because the machine is unavailable, or access has been denied. This only happens on machines we switched from SAMBA. Any other machine we add to the AD Domain that wasn't in the SAMBA domain handles roaming profiles just fine. Has anyone ever seen this behavior? I've checked the permissions on "Documents and Settings" and they are the same as on other machines that work so I don't think it's a permissions problem loading a profile into the Documents and Settings Dir. I've tried flushing old local group policies with gpedit, loading the policy templates. I just don't know where to go from here and what else to try, short of re-imaging the machines. They come into the AD Domain just fine and authenticate users, but roaming profiles won't load. This even occurs if the roaming profile account used is a "Domain Admin". We are using SAMBA version 3.0.33... Thank you very much in advance for your time... Doug P (Sadly moving off Linux) * **