[Samba] Roaming Profiles:Samba PDC:WinXP:User must be local admin

Zach uid000 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 18:14:08 GMT 2004


Tom,


Can't wait to find out what you learn.  In the mean time, a quick
google search turned up this:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/profiles.1.html

Unfortunately I don't have this package installed on this system, so I
don't have the man page or the profiles command right now.

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:46:14 -0700, Tom Skeren <tms3 at fskklaw.com> wrote:
> Zach wrote:
> 
> >We just experimented with this here at work.  As administrator we
> >manually deleted the profile of a user at replaced it with a manual
> >copy of another user's profile, and the problem was reproduced
> >exactly.  When we subsquently deleted NTUSER.DAT and logged in again,
> >NTUSER.DAT was rebuilt using the default profile and the profile
> >loaded properly.  Evidently the SID recorded in NTUSER.DAT has to
> >match the user's sid or it won't load properly.
> >
> Good news Zach.  I'm off to the office to give it a go myself.  Should
> give a preliminary response by noon PST.
> Cheers,
> TMS III
>


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