samba - Feb 2011 - Lost my Samba PDC, trying to rebuild

My PDC is based on the Amahi server in PDC mode, running on Fedora 12.

I got it working previously through a bit of trial and error, and then 
bug fixes to Amahi.  Friday I lost my drive and did not have backups of 
my smb.conf, or my profile directories for my roaming profiles, or most 
of my data.  I had a rsync kind or written, but had not croned it yet....

So the rebuild is well underway.  It looks like my server is set. So 
'key' lines in smb.conf are:

workgroup = HOME
server string = home.htt
netbios name = hda
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 99 -s /bin/false 
-M %u


so I added my first computer into the domain.  I did this by logging in 
locally as administrator, changing it to a workgroup then changing it 
back to my domain.  Looking at that script line, I suspect I can do add 
the other computers just by running that command?

The problem comes with users.   The users were user.HOME in 'Documents 
and Settings'.  But so far on the one computer I have tried with the one 
user I have on that computer, it is creating a new profile for 
user.HDA.  What controls the profile directory on the computer (btw, the 
OS is XP)?  What do I need to do for it to use the profile of user.HOME?

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> The problem comes with users.   The users were user.HOME in 'Documents
> and Settings'.  But so far on the one computer I have tried with the 
> one
> user I have on that computer, it is creating a new profile for
> user.HDA.  What controls the profile directory on the computer (btw, 
> the
> OS is XP)?  What do I need to do for it to use the profile of 
> user.HOME?
Disconnect the workstations from the network. Log in with the old 
domain user account. Run the file and programs transfer wizard 
(Start-All-Programs- Accessories...IIRC) and save the profile transfer 
locally. Log in with new domain user and import the saved
profile.
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> --- Original message ---
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Lost my Samba PDC, trying to rebuild
> From: Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
> To: <tms3 at tms3.com>
> Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Date: Sunday, 13/02/2011  9:39 PM
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> On 02/13/2011 11:42 PM, tms3 at tms3.com wrote:
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>>> The problem comes with users. The users were user.HOME in         
>>> 'Documents
>>> and Settings'. But so far on the one computer I have tried with
>>>  the one
>>> user I have on that computer, it is creating a new profile for
>>> user.HDA. What controls the profile directory on the computer
>>> (btw, the
>>> OS is XP)? What do I need to do for it to use the profile of
>>> user.HOME?
>>>
>> Disconnect the workstations from the network. Log in with the         
>> old domain user account. Run the file and programs transfer         
>> wizard (Start-All-Programs- Accessories...IIRC) and save the         
>> profile transfer locally. Log in with new domain user and import       
>>   the saved profile.
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> I disconnected the ethernet.  I am logging in as the user for domain   
>   HOME.  I get the error:
Hmmm...you need to do a reboot without network connectivity on the 
Windows box. The passwords are cached locally.
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> "The system cannot log you on now because the domain HOME is not     
> available."
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> Before all this, if I did not have network connectivity, I could     
> still log in locally.  Hmmm, let's try disconnecting the server     
> instead...  No dice as the server is also the DHCP server.
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>  Next let's stop smb and nmb on the server, but leave it     
> connected....  Just took longer, but still no login.
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> So now why is it requiring the domain to be present to log in.  No     
> local log in?
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> So I restarted the services and got logged in.
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> If I log in locally as administrator, is there anyway to copy     
> another user's files and settings?
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