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I'm having a problem with Roaming profiles in Windows XP with Samba as PDC. I've googled and trolled the mailing lists and read the Samba documentation. Problem: User logs onto domain from WinXP client and profile is downloaded (you can tell because it takes a long time and lights on hub are lit up). However, unless that user is in the admin group locally, all/some of the profile

Hi, I am using the Idealx smbldap scripts to manage my samba users in an OpenLDAP backend. The smbldap.conf specifies the value for the gecos attribute, which is then propogated to the displayName attribute by the smbldap-useradd script. As a result when I log on to windows the user is displayed as "System User" in the start menu (and presumably other places as well). Ideally there

I've got a problem with roaming profiles. I've googled, trolled the mailing lists, and read the documentation. Problem details I'm running samba 3.0.7 as PDC with WinXP clients. When I log onto WinXP as a domain user the profile is downloaded (you can tell because it takes a while and hub is lit up) but the profile won't load properly. Specifically I notice that the desktop is

Hi, I'm having a problem with roaming profiles. I just built a new machine and put it on the network. When I log on with a domain user, I get an error when it tries to load the roaming profile. The error is that certain file, which is part of the profile, can't be overwritten because it is in use. Then it goes on to attempt to load a local profile, which, of course, it can't find.