[Samba] Problems with XP clients and profiles

[ZB]

Ah, no, I didn't mean to misspell it...That was the problem though :) I'll 
have a look at that shortly....

Also, versions were in original posting - Centos 4.2, Samba 3 (3.0.10-1.4E.2, 
to be exact).


Thanks!


ZB


On Monday 02 January 2006 11:41 pm, Karl Banasky wrote:
> It is installed with SAMBA 3.0  I am running CentOS and fedora, on both.
>   should be a man page on it.  Also did you mean to mis-spell it? It is
> pdbedit.  Could do a locate on it to see where it is, might not be
> path-ed correctly.
> Here is a link to a man page on it:
> http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/pdbedit.8.html
>
> It is good practice to say what version of Samba you are running along
> with the OS.
>
> Karl-
>
> Z B wrote:
> > Is pbedit a part of Samba or Windows? I'm not finding the command on the
> > CentOS server or on an XP client...
> >
> > ZB
> >
> > Karl Banasky wrote:
> >>  I thought this had to do with the machine and user ID number (SID)
> >>  related to the Domain server. If you do a "pdbedit -Lv -u username" you
> >>  will see the SID numbers for that user. I would check and see that the
> >>  first set of numbers related to the domain or workgroup (I think)
> >> match. I ran in to a similar problem before and I thought that is what I
> >> read was my problem.
> >>  Hard subject to research if I remember correctly.
> >>  Karl-
> >>
> >>> Martin Miethe wrote:
> >>>>> However, the problem arises when I try to get the existing clients
> >>>>> setup for the new domain. I'm able to join the domain without a
> >>>>> problem. However, when I reboot and try to login via a samba
> >>>>> username / password (we're using a first initial-last name
> >>>>> convention), Windows creates a new profile in C:
> >>>>> \Documents and Settings\username.NEWDOMAIN, while all of the
> >>>>> original data is in C:\Documents and Settings\username, and is
> >>>>> essentially gone as far as the users are concerned.
> >>>>
> >>>> Try this:
> >>>> 1) create a new account with admin rights (maybe administrator 2)
> >>>> 2) go to "local users and groups" -> right click on Administrators
> >>>> -> Add to Group -> Add... -> Location -> select your local computer
> >>>> name;
> >>>> enter the account name from 1) in the white box (administrator2)
> >>>> 3) restart!
> >>>> 4) go to the icon "my computer" -> righ click -> properties ->
> >>>> advanced -> user profiles -> settings
> >>>> from here copy the content from the local profile (username) to the
> >>>> DOMAIN.username profile;
> >>>> before you click OK, change the "permitted to use" to everyone (type
> >>>> Everyone in the whitebox)
> >>>> 5) click ok and wait ... you can delete the new administrator2 account
> >>>>
> >>>> regards,