[Samba] user profil wipe in a samba 4 AD domain

[Rowland Penny]

On 11/06/15 10:13, joseph-andre Guaragna wrote:
> 2015-06-11 11:03 GMT+02:00 Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>:
>> On 11/06/15 08:09, joseph-andre Guaragna wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We have set up an Active Directory using samba4 (Zentyal), everything
>>> seems to be all right tilll the point were user profile are wiped out.
>>
>> What do you mean by 'user profile are wiped out' ?
> I mean all user data wiped
>> Do you mean just one user is removed ?
> all user from the workstation
>> Or something else ?
>>
>> How is the 'wiping' being done ?
> the user's folder still exist but there is no data, it is like is
> recreated the whole profile
>>> We noticed when one of our linux uer tryed to connect to a windows
>>> workstation. It was allow so it juste created the user on the windows
>>> workstation. Few minutes later we realize that every domain account on
>>> the windows box were wiped, and the linux account also wiped.
>>
>> So the user can login but all other domain accounts on the PC have gone, Do
>> the domain Accounts still exist on the AD DC ?
> Yes the users still exists on the domain, and can still connect on any
> workstation they are supposed to.
>>
>>> We could not find any reason for that, nor explanation in the log, I
>>> may be missing something as I could not understand all the mechanisms
>>> involved.
>>>
>>>
>>> we use samba 4.0. and pbis 8.2 client on the linux boxes.
>>>
>> Rowland
>>
>>> Thanks for your help
>>>
>>>
>   Joseph GUARAGNA

Taking this back on list where it belongs.

I think I understand your problem now, but just a few questions to 
confirm what I am thinking.
Were your windows machines part of a domain before ?
If so, what type of domain ?
If there was a domain, what was the server ?

Rowland