samba - Dec 2012 - Windows 8 and roaming profiles hosted on Samba - NO ONE does this?

After searching Google for many days/weeks, I've discovered that apparently
NO
ONE on the planet uses Windows 8 w/ roaming profiles and Samba!

Authentication server:
Windows Server 2003 R2 x64

File server:
FreeBSD 9.1
Samba 3.6.9

My configuration file is here:
http://xenomorph.net/linux/samba/configuration/sample/

Windows XP and Windows 7 work fine. Clean profile, imported profiles,
etc.With Windows 8, there seems to be some sort of profile corruption
when the
profile syncs. It always seems to trip up on files related to Internet
Explorer.

\Favorites, \Links, \IECompatCache, .url files, etc.

Event viewer is filled with stuff like this:

Windows cannot copy file
\\?\C:\Users\Derp\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\IECompatCache\Low to
location
\\?\UNC\10.0.0.1\Share\Home\Derp\Profile.V2\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\IECompatCache\Low.
This error may be caused by network problems or insufficient security
rights.

DETAIL - The parameter is incorrect.

-----

Windows cannot copy file
\\?\C:\Users\Derp\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PrivacIE\Low to
location
\\?\UNC\10.0.0.1\Share\Home\Derp\Profile.V2\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PrivacIE\Low.
This error may be caused by network problems or insufficient security
rights.

DETAIL - The parameter is incorrect.

-----

Windows cannot copy file \\?\C:\Users\Derp\Favorites to location
\\?\UNC\10.0.0.1\Share\Home\Derp\Profile.V2\Favorites. This error may be
caused by network problems or insufficient security rights.

DETAIL - The parameter is incorrect.

-----

Windows cannot copy file \\?\C:\Users\Derp\Favorites\Links to location
\\?\UNC\10.0.0.1\Share\Home\Derp\Profile.V2\Favorites\Links. This error may
be caused by network problems or insufficient security rights.

DETAIL - The parameter is incorrect.

Anyone have any suggestions, other than "don't use roaming
profiles"???

Thanks,

On 20.12.2012 20:59, Nick wrote:
> After searching Google for many days/weeks, I've discovered that
apparently NO
> ONE on the planet uses Windows 8 w/ roaming profiles and Samba!
This is wrong. In fact I do. Or more preciesely I have tried to use Samba 3.6 
with Windows 8 Roaming Profiles. In fact I did run into exactly the same 
problems and reported my issues here:

<https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2012-September/169080.html>

I have provided full debug logs as well but got no single reply yet. Looks like 
Roaming Profiles are not very widely used. For me this is still one of the best 
options to make sure user data is backed up. I am also using it for mandatory 
profiles in educational environment in order to enforce clean profiles on each 
login.

Currently with Windows 8 it seems to be broken. Maybe it's related to SMB2
but
Windows 8 reports "The parameter is incorrect" on a number of files
during
upload. In fact the files are stored on the server and then they disappear 
entirely again.

I discovered that on Windows 8 there are some issues copying folders with mapped
names in desktop.ini (everywhere where LocalizedResourceName attribute is used) 
and thought it might be related. But as said I did not get any response yet.