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Hi All, I've happily had Samba (3.0.24) operating as DC for my Win2k/XP network for years. I've just upgraded to Vista and eveything seems to be working fine (shares, domain logons) apart from roaming profiles. Just after logging on, the following error appears in a bubble from the system tray: "Your user profile was not loaded correctly! You have been logged on with a temporary

Hi Folks, Two houses - one at "home" and one at "uni". Each house has it's own subnet with a few W2k/XP clients and a FC4 (samba-3.0.14a-2) server. The two servers are linked by a routing OpenVPN link. I have the uni server set up as a PDC using smbpasswd authentication and everything is working fine. Now I want to extend the domain to my freshly installed home server, so

Hi Dirk, thanks for your reply! I definatly want to go down the BDC route so that I always log on to the nearest server. The link between the two isn't really an issue - both have a DSL connection to the internet. I started by modifying my smb.conf files so that each server is a local master for their subnet, but only the uni box is domain master. After fiddling with the 'remote