samba - May 2017 - Samba 4.5.8-Debian User Profiles on NFS-Share

>>> Rowland Penny <rpenny at samba.org> 23.05.2017 12:39
>>>
On Tue, 23 May 2017 12:08:59 +0200
Franz Gansberger via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > Why ? profiles is a windows thing and NFS isn't
> 
>> The Samba-AD is virtualized, therefore the storage is an a different
>> machine.
>Allow me to introduce you to the 'profilePath' attribute, you can
set
>this to where ever you want the profiles to be stored, no need of NFS.
Yeah. :-)
Wouldn't this require the "storage server" to be member of the
domain?!
Since I'm in the process of migrating WS to the new environment, the old PDC
can't be demounted right now, so my paswords, due to a re-evaluating even
some of the usernames are different.
> 
> I read this, but I have already an information overflow.
> Unfortunately, most of the information found by google is outdated or
> regarding a differten version of OS/Samba
>You are quite correct, a lot of the stuff found by google is old and
>out of date, this is why we have the Samba wiki, why most people ignore
>it, I have no idea. They seem to ask questions that refer to Samba
>on the strangest of forums and mailing lists ;-)
Agree! But - me as an admin, running on a stable environment (e.g. Debian
Jessie) can only use the rather old 4.1.6 Samba.
The developement made big progress in the meantime, and if I would build from
source I'm on 4.6.3.
And now the wiki. Valid for which version? ;-)
I decided to run on Strecht, which brought me to 4.5.8...  So now im on average
- with knowledge inbetween. ;-)

> 
> > [profiles]
> >    browseable = yes
> > path = /data/data/profiles-nfs
> >    read only = no acl_xattr:ignore system acl = yes
> 
> >Configure the profiles share from withing windows. That could work
> >imo. 
> 
> unfortunately, not working...
> 
> On the same share (profiles), with the same setting I can copy, open,
> execute, rewrite and overwrite files without any problem. permissions
> are correct. Only the demo1.V4 directory which should hold the
> roaming profile is  still showing empty directorys, and no files. 
>If only one profile isn't working then probably there is a problem with
>that profile.
All profiles behaving the same. I have a couple of test users, always starting
from scratch (Registry Profile list cleaned, User deleted, Profile deleted, ...

Thanks anyhow!

Franz 


Rowland

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: samba [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens 
> Franz Gansberger via samba
> Verzonden: dinsdag 23 mei 2017 14:49
> Aan: samba at lists.samba.org; rpenny at samba.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Samba 4.5.8-Debian User Profiles on NFS-Share
> 
> 
> >>> Rowland Penny <rpenny at samba.org> 23.05.2017 12:39
>>>
> On Tue, 23 May 2017 12:08:59 +0200
> Franz Gansberger via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > Why ? profiles is a windows thing and NFS isn't
> > 
> >> The Samba-AD is virtualized, therefore the storage is an a 
> different 
> >> machine.
> 
> >Allow me to introduce you to the 'profilePath' attribute, 
> you can set 
> >this to where ever you want the profiles to be stored, no 
> need of NFS.
> 
> Yeah. :-)
> Wouldn't this require the "storage server" to be member of 
> the domain?!
> Since I'm in the process of migrating WS to the new 
> environment, the old PDC can't be demounted right now, so my 
> paswords, due to a re-evaluating even some of the usernames 
> are different.  
> 
> > 
> > I read this, but I have already an information overflow.
> > Unfortunately, most of the information found by google is 
> outdated or 
> > regarding a differten version of OS/Samba
> 
> >You are quite correct, a lot of the stuff found by google is old and 
> >out of date, this is why we have the Samba wiki, why most 
> people ignore 
> >it, I have no idea. They seem to ask questions that refer to 
> Samba on 
> >the strangest of forums and mailing lists ;-)
> 
> Agree! But - me as an admin, running on a stable environment 
> (e.g. Debian Jessie) can only use the rather old 4.1.6 Samba.
Jessie stable is now at 4.2.14 (update 5)
> The developement made big progress in the meantime, and if I 
> would build from source I'm on 4.6.3.
> And now the wiki. Valid for which version? ;-) I decided to 
> run on Strecht, which brought me to 4.5.8...  So now im on 
> average - with knowledge inbetween. ;-)
If you want 4.6.3 or 4.5.8. 
Have a look here. http://downloads.van-belle.nl/samba4/

Samba packages 4.5.8 for Jessie and Wheezy package 4.6.3 are available through
Repo for Jessie.
http://apt.van-belle.nl/ 

I was buzy with new packages, but due to the notice yesterday i stopped that. 
I'll update to new version soon after the new samba release.

Best part ;-) 
Read the change logs summerized: 
http://downloads.van-belle.nl/samba4/Upgrade-info.txt 

And the Full logs:
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_Features_added/changed_(by_release) 


Greetz, 

Louis


> 
> 
> > 
> > > [profiles]
> > >    browseable = yes
> > > path = /data/data/profiles-nfs
> > >    read only = no acl_xattr:ignore system acl = yes
> > 
> > >Configure the profiles share from withing windows. That could work
> > >imo.
> > 
> > unfortunately, not working...
> > 
> > On the same share (profiles), with the same setting I can 
> copy, open, 
> > execute, rewrite and overwrite files without any problem. 
> permissions 
> > are correct. Only the demo1.V4 directory which should hold 
> the roaming 
> > profile is  still showing empty directorys, and no files.
> 
> >If only one profile isn't working then probably there is a 
> problem with 
> >that profile.
> 
> All profiles behaving the same. I have a couple of test 
> users, always starting from scratch (Registry Profile list 
> cleaned, User deleted, Profile deleted, ...
> 
> Thanks anyhow!
> 
> Franz 
> 
> 
> Rowland
> 
> 
> 
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On Tue, 23 May 2017 14:49:27 +0200
"Franz Gansberger" <franz.gansberger at boku.ac.at> wrote:
> 
> Yeah. :-)
> Wouldn't this require the "storage server" to be member of
the
> domain?! Since I'm in the process of migrating WS to the new
> environment, the old PDC can't be demounted right now, so my
> paswords, due to a re-evaluating even some of the usernames are
> different.  
Yes, you would need to setup a Unix domain member and join this to the
domain. Just an heads up, if you are still running a PDC, do not join
any of your domain computers to the AD domain, there is no going back.
> Agree! But - me as an admin, running on a stable environment (e.g.
> Debian Jessie) can only use the rather old 4.1.6 Samba. The
> developement made big progress in the meantime, and if I would build
> from source I'm on 4.6.3. And now the wiki. Valid for which
> version? ;-) I decided to run on Strecht, which brought me to
> 4.5.8...  So now im on average - with knowledge inbetween. ;-)
Can I suggest you use Louis's packages, they are stable on jessie (they
even work on Devuan jessie)
> >If only one profile isn't working then probably there is a problem
> >with that profile.
> 
> All profiles behaving the same. I have a couple of test users, always
> starting from scratch (Registry Profile list cleaned, User deleted,
> Profile deleted, ...
> 
They should work, but if they don't, post a level 10 log.

Rowland