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Hi there I am setting up a PDC with Centos 5 + Samba 3.5.4 + Openldap with Roaming profiles using kixstart tools to mount shared folder and modifing some registry entries on windows workstations, The Roaming profiles works fine between Win2000 and WinXP. but when I tried to join a Win7 or Vista workstations i get mixed errors. Sometimes the profiles loads sometimes not, or loads badly

Hi all, Has anyone else had trouble (or not) with symlinks created in root preexec scripts and roaming profile directories? I'm trying to add a "shared links" director (symlink) to everyone's favorites, and I get error loading profiles where a symlink loop is forming (ends up with something like "cannot copy

Hello everybody, we have the following problem here: We've set up a complete samba domain (based on 3.0.20 now) which is running very fine including ldap backend. But we've still problems using roaming profiles (especially prf*tmp) files. We already tested the veto oplock directive with /prf*.tmp/ and even /*.tmp/ but these files remain always locked. Only "root" can delete

I'm running Windows 2000 Professional and Samba 3.0.1 and I can't seem to get roaming profiles to work right. When there are no profiles stored locally on the win2k machine, and a user logs in for the first time, it successfully reads the profile from the server in the \\netlogon\Default User share. Next, if you manually copy the profile to server and login to the workstation, it

Hello, I'm running Samba Version 3.4.7 on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS. I'm using Samba as the Primary Domain Controller. Things that work: - Clients can logon - I can run logon scripts - Roaming profiles are created for new users on logon However, when I try to logon again with the same user, I invariably get this error message: "Your roaming profile is not available. You are logged on

Hi all I've updated a server from samba 2.2.8 to 3.0.20 . and i've got some problems with roaming profiles on Win2k clients workstations . On WinXp clients everything works fine but on win2k clients the client says that it cannot load roaming profiles. I've disconnected and re-joined the machine to the domain , and if fails again: logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%u [Profiles]

Hello everybody, we have the following problem here: We've set up a complete samba domain (based on 3.0.20 now) which is running very fine including ldap backend. But we've still problems using roaming profiles (especially prf*tmp) files. We already tested the veto oplock directive with /prf*.tmp/ and even /*.tmp/ but these files remain always locked. Only "root" can delete

I have a generally stable and well-working Samba configuration on a few servers but I have noticed one recurring problem that crops up from time to time on at least two different systems. The Samba version is '3.0.9-1.3E.2' (from the Red Hat RPM release), it is configured as a PDC, and NT profile updating generally works fine. However, I've noticed that on two completely separate

Hi I trying to configure Samba PDC/BDC with LDAP master/slave backend and file server as a Member serwer. PDC/BDC with ldap is working. But now I 'm in the middle of configuring roaming profiles but I don't understand some issues. Samba PDC/BDC with ldap's is on ubuntu server whereas samba member server is on opensolaris with zfs based storage. users Home directories will be on

Hi, I have been trying to use samba for a while as a way to have an identical desktop/startmenu/profile/favourites/etc on multiple PCs. Samba is setup as the PDC and I can join the domain and login. The problems started firstly when I wanted to have some sort of caching and also logon concurrently to different pcs with the same user. The main problem being that whichever computer I log off

A collegue of mine, in a different office branch of my organization, suffer continuous troubles on roaming profiles, troubles thta in my site, with rather similar setup, does not happens. Trouble last some month, but 'till now we have thinked was the network, and we had worked checking cables, switches, configurations. But trouble continues... and seems frequent but not with a specific

Hello all, I progress slowly in my installation of Samba; but I'm confronted to two problems: 1) Is it possible to configure Samba (4.1.7) directly from GNU/Linux (CentOS 6.5) for automatically mount the user's home directory to "H:" when he connects to the domain ? 2) In addition, after that, I'll try to set up profiles' roaming. Here's my files:

Hello all, I progress slowly in my installation of Samba; but I'm confronted to two problems: 1) Is it possible to configure Samba (4.1.7) directly from GNU/Linux (CentOS 6.5) for automatically mount the user's home directory to "H:" when he connects to the domain ? 2) In addition, after that, I'll try to set up profiles' roaming. Here's my files:

Hi guys, I'm experiencing seemingly random problems using roaming profiles with Samba 3.0.2 on Debian Woody and clients being Win XP Pro and Win2K (all of them running the latest service packs and critical updates and so forth). Sometimes when one of the machines tires to login the server profile can't be found. The error Windows comes up with is "Network name cannot be found."

Hi, I'm setting up a new sambserver, migrating from 2.2.8a with ldap backend to 3.0.x (3.0.2a and 3.0.3pre2 tested) with openldap 2.1.26 backend and using sambaSamAccount I'm experiencing the following problem: - Roaming profiles sometimes work, sometimes not (most of the time not) and show erratic behaviour like removing the local copy (without having the DeleteRoamingCache key in

Hi After changing from samba 2.2.7 to 3.0.rc2 I can't get roaming profiles work. Clients Are W2K and XP. I've also switched from smbpasswd backend to ldap. Logon path is only set in smb.conf, not in ldap. Storing of profiles is working but it takes very long. I've tried logon path = \\wilma2\profile\Win2K and \\wilma2\profile. But the clients are always storing profile in

Hello, I have installed since 6 months a PDC with samba and there is an endless problem : the roaming profile synchronisation !!! THE problem : Sometimes after the logout of a client, the roaming profile is not synchronised on server. So when client connect on another clients, it seems that some data have been loosed... After there is no later synchronisation... So mails in profile are often

Hi, I'm exerimenting with samba+ldap pdc and I have "Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile" on logon, here is smb.conf: [global] unix charset = LOCALE workgroup = CPE netbios name = CPE-PDC server string = Samba Domain Controller enable privileges = yes interfaces = eth1,lo bind interfaces only = Yes passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://192.168.10.124 #

Background on setup Here is some basic background of my setup I have 3 domains setup running over a IPSEC tunnel over the Internet with one PDC BDC and some file servers at each location all running samba (I am sorry I do not have the version number in front of me for samba) from SUSE enterprise 10 using the LDAP backend. There is a trust setup between all the domains and the IPSEC tunnels is

I have samba 3 configured and running fine as a PDC with LDAP as the back end user database. I have most users using roaming profiles but there are a few I would like to be able to only have local profiles. Is it possible to configure samba to use both types of profile rather than one or the other. I have the profile path set on each user account in LDAP as the field