[Samba] Roaming profiles and USRMGR.EXE

[Bernd Pörner]

Another observation:

If I create a user account using USRMGR.EXE and I don't specify the
roaming profile path, the user account gets no roaming profile despite
the setting in smb.conf (logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U\%a).

Is this a bug or a feature?

B.

Bernd Pörner wrote:
> I'm using Samba 3.0.22 on Ubuntu 6.06.1 as PDC for our Windows
> workstations. The passdb backend is tdbsam.
>
> I want to employ roaming profiles and due to the fact that we have a
> mixed Windows environment (Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP Pro) I have
> the following entry in my smb.conf:
>
> logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U\%a
>
> Basically, this works fine. If a user is working on a W2k workstation,
> his roaming profile is stored under
> \\servername\profiles\username\W2000. If he is working on a WinXP
> workstation, his roaming profile is stored under
> \\servername\profiles\username\WinXP.
>
> Currently, I'm experimenting with the User Manager for Domains
> (USRMGR.EXE) from Microsoft to evaluate how good this tool is for
> administrating a Samba PDC. Concerning the type of roaming profiles
> described above I have some problems with USRMGR.EXE:
>
> When editing the User Properties of a Samba user account with
> USRMGR.EXE, the user's roaming profile path is "hard-set" to
> \\servername\profiles\username\W2000 (or
> \\servername\profiles\username\WinXP, according to the workstation's OS
> I run USRMGR.EXE from). So, next time the user logs in on a machine with
> the other OS, for example WinXP, the roaming profile for Win2k is loaded.
>
> Remark: This problem only occurs, when editing the User Properties of
> Samba user accounts which were created using USRMGR.EXE. User accounts
> which were created the UNIX way (useradd and smbpasswd) seem not to be
> affected.
>
> Any ideas how to avoid this problem, apart of not using USRMGR.EXE?
>
> Cheers
> Bernd
>
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