Win2k profile problem

[andy thomas]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Andre de Koning wrote:

> NT4 and W2k profiles are not compatable ... you would have to let 2000
> create a new profile and move over the required settings etc.

We have done this. Also, we have had a lot of new users who do not already
have any NT4 profiles.

As a short term fix, we are about to move all our user's profiles to a
real Win2k server but hopefuly we can revert to a samba server again in
the future when these problems have been hopefully been fixed,

Andy

>
> Andre
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of andy thomas
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 8:40 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Win2k profile problem
>
>
> We had about 100 PCs running Windows NT 4 with both the user home
> directories and the roaming profiles stored on a DEC Alpha server running
> samba 2.0.7. This all worked fine for a couple of years but we have just
> moved on to Win2k and we are having problems with profiles.
>
> Whenever anyone logs in, a message appears saying Windows is unable to
> read the user's profile and that a temporary profile will be used instead,
> and that changes will not be saved when the user logs out. The profiles
> section of my smb.conf looks like this:
>
> [user_profile]
> 	comment = user profiles directory
> 	path = /maths/user_profiles
> 	browseable = yes
> 	writeable = yes
> 	create mode = 0700
> 	directory mode = 0700
> 	username = %U
> 	valid users = %U
> 	nt acl support = no
>
>
> I added in this last line after reading here of problems with Win2k SP2
> roaming profiles (our PCs all have SP2 installed). It has not made any
> difference to the profile problem.
>
> Is there a fix for this problem or is it a known issue with samba and
> Win2k that is still be worked on?
>
> Andy
>
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