similar to: Strange PDC issue

I use Samba as a PDC (non-AD-style) on the server n°1. I have successfully created a BDC on the server n°2. I followed the official guide SAMBA (https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-bdc.html) On servers n°2 I have also transferred the users database from the server n° 1 (https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-move-migrate-user-accounts-old-to-new-server/) When I

Hi all, I'm trying to configure samba as PDC, I have a problem when windows client log in this is the error: Windows cannot load the profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off I have samba-3.0.11 and smbldap-tools-0.8.8. I tryed also samba-3.0.14 and smbldap-tools-0-9.1, I have the same problem on Gentoo and on

I've got an issue with roaming profiles with samba 3.0.23a and an LDAP backend. I can use the ldap to authenticate an NT and a local user, and I know alot about PAM, NSS, and general linux. BUT, I can't get ANY roaming profiles to work. Other than my domain name changed for security purposes, the following is my smb.conf file. (I first used SWAT, then did more customization)

Hi, i have a Samba PDC (no LDAP) and added add user script to my config. I can create the user with no problems, login is possible but the /home/samba/profile/user dir is not created. Any hints on that? script commands i added: add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m '%u' -g ntusers -G ntusers -s /bin/false delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r '%u' add group script =

Hi, i finally made it working to logon via ldap and roaming profiles... but a new problem is in front of me. i logged in as user already in db, all data is loaded from the roaming profile. but windows complains about securtiy settings (they are risky) in internet explorer, also i have u.s keyboard layout i dont' need. there are also error messages regarding mapping via net use. the

Hi, i have a Ubuntu x64 10.04 Server. Samba configured as PDC. Since today i experience that roaming prfiles can't copy one file to the server and shout an error message. It's no specific file, mostly its one in my Thunderbird Profile. Does anybody know what could this cause to happen? My smb.conf: [global] printing = bsd netbios name = PDC server string = PDC (%h)

Hello everyone, I'm using Samba 3.0.30 as PDC in my home-LAN, the clients are all XP Pro SP2. Everything is working as it should, although I notice an annoying and quite random login delay of 1-5 seconds for all user-machine combinations. The log lines below (log-level 2) are for example what I got about an hour ago: [2009/03/20 18:43:45, 3] smbd/open.c:open_file(240) Tester opened file

Greetings! I have configured samba as a PDC. This works fine so far, I can add users, log in at my Win2k workstations and use roaming profiles. But now my problem: I want several "template" profiles. I want to use several different pre-configured base-profiles. 1) I configure a template-user: configure the corresponding Desktop, network and printer connections and so on. 2) After this

Hi, I have a little problem with my Samba PDC setup. I have a Debian / Etch with Samba 3.0.24 with OpenLDAP Backend and use it as PDC with domain logons and roaming profiles enabled. The logon for normal domain users work without any problems, but when I login with my domain administrator account my Windows XP Professional client I have a big problem. After the logout, when it tries to copy

Hi List, As i m new to this list. i have some issue with my Samba PDC. Main problem is user's roaming profile is not working. NTUSER.DAT --- DENY_WRITE. this is coming . can not load you profile . loading default profile....... Please guide me is there any changes has to made..... Here is my smb.conf file. Version 2.2 OS Redhat 9 [global] workgroup = LK netbios name = HOBBES

Hello, I have been fighting with this particular problem for almost week. I didnot find any solution till today! I would like to share this one with you to help. The network: **************** 1. Samba PDC server (OpenSuse 11.2 - samba 3.4.3-3.6.1) 2. Windows 7 Pro 64bit clients 3. A lot of Windows XP Pro clients The past: ************ 1. Few years of perfect Windows XP networking with full

Hi, i have some shares defined in my smb.conf, but now i experience rights issues. a share looks like this: [share] path = /mnt/share guest ok = yes writeable = no public = no write list = @ntusers read only = no this settings i have set since i experience problems. before it looked like this and worked: [share] path = /mnt/share guest ok = yes writeable

Hello, in school We have CentOS6.5 server with Samba3.6.9 (default from CentOS3.6.9 repository). Clients are WinXP, Win7 and Win8.1, We use roaming profiles. Everything is working perfect, except that when user logs off from Win8.1 client, he is not able to log in for about 15 minutes to any Win8.1 client at school. After 15 minutes it is possible again. I do have pretty standard smb.conf, no

ps://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-bdc.html) > Can I ask why you are setting up an NT4-style domain, you do know that > Windows made them EOL quite a long time ago and is trying to make them > hard to use with the newer versions of Windows. > > Also, the howto that you refer to is extremely old is not recommended > anymore. > Many thanks Penny! I

How to set up roaming profiles that samba doesn't download whole profiles, only necessary files ntuser.ini ntuser.dat eg. end rest of registry settings? I would like to setup profiles running (downloading) fast from server when clients login. Clients XP PRO SP3. Samba ver. 3.0.33-3.29.el5_5 Which file form samba registry should I use to force using roaming profiles :

Hello, I have a working Samba-PDC with ldap-Backaend. It works fine for all our user, except one user. He can't log in. I can't find an error in ldap (compared his entry with mine) nor in the logfile. Can anybody help me to figure out the cause of this? Here is my smb.conf: [global] workgroup = test netbios aliases = homedirs server string = apollo

Hi, I've recently reinstalled our Samba server with a view to getting it working as a PDC using the tdbsam backend. I've successfully connected a number of XP Pro SP2 clients to the domain and can login ok, but I'm have problems getting the clients to read/apply an NTConfig.POL file I created following the instructions at http://www.pcc-services.com/custom_poledit.html I'm seeing

Hello all, I've been trying to figure out what the best way of doing the group policy thing is. We are running samba 3 on slackware 9 with winxp clients. We are a school. i'm unclear on how much AD is actually supported... OU GPO all that. so i decided to go the "administrative template" way (used to be .pol files) I'm thinking of having the students run off of a

Hi all; for few weeks I'm trying to implement a new samba PDC server for my school. It is based on debian squeeze and samba 3.5.6 with lDAP backend. I was able to join a computer into domain, LDAP is working, mapping home drive for users also. It seems that almost all works good but with one exeption. The one thing which is broken is roaming profile support. When user is logging into domain

Please bear with me as this is quite a complicated problem which has eluded me for days now... I recently upgraded a Samba 2.2 PDC to Samba 3.0 [3.0.20a as of now]. After upgrading, I had problems with two XP machines, among 16 of them. One of them didn't validate the domain users correctly. That was immediately taken care of by having said machine leave and re-join the domain. Nothing