[Samba] couldn't find service %u on 3.0.14a

[Bill Witts]

Hi,

I have an identical issue, hitting Win2K SP4, ever since upgrading to 
Debian Sarge.

Here's an additional observation, and a workaround.

We have roving profiles, and on any user logging in or out, Samba creates a 
profile directory called %u. That is, (for example) on logging out, instead 
of writing back to a directory called /home/samba_profiles/fred, it creates 
a new directory called /home/samba_profiles/%u, as though the variable 
substitution is simply not happening, and writes the profile back there.

However, it doesn't appear to load this new profile (ie, it's not a 
security breach!) and when a user logs in, we just get the "Cannot locate 
your profile ..." alert.

Anyway, I found a workaround. My Unix usernames are the same as my NT 
usernames. So I just changed %u to %U to see what happened, and the problem 
has gone away.

I would guess that this'll give some big hints to anyone who is checking 
through the code!

Cheers,

Bill