similar to: roaming user profiles do not transfer all settings

i'm not sure how to create different logon scripts for different users. right now i have one logon script called 'logon.bat' that maps all users to a server share and syncs the time with the server. i need to be able to map different users to different server shares. not all users should be mapped to all server shares. these should be automatic mappings. for example: user1 should

maybe this is a simple fix but i really don't know how to fix it... it seems that i cannot run any net rpc commands... i wanted to see the members of Domain Users group so i did the following: root# net rpc group members "Domain Users" -Uroot%not24get and i got this error: Could not connect to server 127.0.0.1 Connection failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED i can ping localhost

the reason why the wallpaper was not following the roaming profile is because i was not using bitmaps... check out this post: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-November/114588.html i am also quoting the last sentence on this web page: http://computertips.toups.info/roaming/RoamingXPPro.htm "There appears to be a problem where .jpg wallpaper does not appear to roam properly.

i'm trying to do something which i thought would be simple but i am having a hard time finding information on this. i already have a samba pdc running and managing 17 windows xp clients. i have one linux client that i need to join to the domain. i don't want this client to share anything, i just want it to be on the domain. what does my smb.conf file need to look like??

Hi, This is my first messegge to the list. I need to migrate a Windows 2000 Server PDC to a Linux/Samba, and I readed a lot searching for an answer. My problem is with Roaming Profiles. The user can log on but the configuration isn't the correctly one. The wallpaper, the mail storge, the shortcuts, etc. are wrong. May be is the ntuser.dat file that don?t work well. What can I do?

os: debian etch 4.0 samba: 3.025c i am reading through the how-to (using samba 3rd ed), freely available btw at http://book.opensourceproject.org.cn/sysadmin/samba/sambao3rd/ i am interested in setting up a samba pdc for a good dozen windows xp pro clients. (i somehow could not wake up from the windows 2003 sbs nightmare). i have been able to join my debian box to the local windows domain and

section 13.3.2 of the HOWTO shows that i can add a user to a group with the following command: root# net rpc group addmem "MIDEARTH\Engineers" ajt -Uroot when i execute this command (replaced with my server specific values, of course), i get a NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER error. i can verify that my user DOES exist and that he belongs to the posix group account. i can also verify that the

Hi! I'm getting difficulties with wallpapers on roaming profiles on a samba 3.0.9-2.3 under SuSE 9.2 with Windows XP Professional Clients. I discovered, by reading other postings concerning this topic, that Windows won't use jpegs as wallpapers on roaming profiles (converts them to bmp and stores them in "Local Settings", which doesn't roam). So I converted the pictures

Hello, I've finally managed to get roaming profiles working (kindof). However some issues (after lots of googling) remain unresolved. Here's a summary of what I've done to date: 1) Setup samba shares according to gentoo-wiki.org <http://gentoo-wiki.org>(there were some problems with permissions etc after that but they're ok now) 2) Edited NTUSER of a foobar user account

Hi, This is driving me nuts!! Ok, this is a home network, so not many machines! I HAD 1 windows XP machine with local profiles for everyone - worked fine. I have now installed a linux box with SAMBA on it and I have 3 desktop PCs. I have set up roaming profiles (I think) correctly according to the How-To book. I initially had some trouble getting the local profiels moved to the server, but I

I want to setup a linux box with samba as a file and print server for a LAN of 20 NT 4.0 SP3 workstations. I want the home direcotories to be on the server the clients to have roaming profiles. For this, do I have to make the linux box a domain controller? I want to avoid it if I can, because the domain control code in not on the production releases. I don't want to setup an NT server either.

I am on a rh 7.2 machinr running samba. My clients are windows 2000 and whn using locl profiles I experience quick log-ons and quicj log-offs. Whwn I flag the client for roaming profiles, it seems to take many minutes to log off. The users roaming directory IS created and is populated with their user inoformation, one user has 300M of stuff.Which I thought was alot. When the user goes to

Hi, I have configured roaming profile on WIndows Xp client that is connect to the Samba. Login works fine except that when I change the wallpaper on one machine, log off and goes to another machine, the wallpaper was not changed on the other one. Other files created on the desktop are changed. Can anyone explain or help ? Thanks. adrian

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

using samba 3.14a, windows xp sp2 configured with roaming profiles. the profile seems to download properly but the start menu seems to be empty of shortcuts. anything tht requires reading of files seems to be acting strangely the files exist on the server but somehow they are not read on the workstation all of the /profiles/username directories are configured exactly the same. drwx------ 13

Hi list, I intend to run an old pentium 133 as a linux-based fileserver on my home network (I have to use windows for my main machine and laptop!) Im having great diffiuculty synching the data, email, etc on my laptop and desktop, so I thought I might configure samba to act as a DC and use roaming profiles to make sure that my data is always synched. My question is this: is it worth the effort?

Hi, Ive got my PDC up and running under samba, it is serving several windows 2000 machines and a windows XP machine. The problem is when using Roaming Profiles....... Were using Outlook XP + IMAP Mail for the users emails, which works fine.... the only problem comes when logging off the machine and back to another. The windows 2000 machines seem to update the profile changes back to the server.

> Why do admins think they can enter people's private areas? It's nothing > to do with you. You are merely there to make sure the computers work. So > do just that. You do not dictate what others put in their profile. Just > leave your users alone. When they have a problem they will tell you. > Otherwise stay out. > Jo I know that my english is not very well as

i'm reading through the samba howto. section 6.2.3 (page 105) shows the add machine script as follows: add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/nobody -g 100 -s /bin/false -M %u i have a problem with the -M option. i cannot find this option in useradd's man page. can i assume this example is incorrect?? what would be a correct example???

Hey all, I've got a few WinXP workstations logging into a 2.2.4pre (CVS from April 30th, around 8 p.m. PDT) PDC, and I'm having some sort of odd problem with roaming profiles. The XP workstations can successfully (it seems) retrieve and save thier profiles to the samba box; however, if I log off a user, say "gary", from one workstation, and travel to the next one, and log in