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2007 Aug 15
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changing a user's name.
...5.0 w/ smbpasswd password database and roaming profiles. A user (running XP w/ SP2) recently got married and has a new last name. So, I need to change her username from bkearny to btalbot. In the past I've just changed their name in /etc/samba/smbpasswd and moved /var/lib/samba/profiles/old_username to new_username and changed ownership of the files (chown -R new_username /var/lib/samba/profiles/new_username) and also done the same with their net login script (change to new name and change ownership of it). This has caused problems when they get a new PC or format and reinstall of XP on...