[Samba] Odd random roaming profile issues
Paul Venzke
venzkep at srt.com
Mon Jul 26 21:02:19 MDT 2010
On Mon July 26 2010 16:05, Donny Brooks wrote:
> We are currently using samba and openLDAP to enable our users to
> have roaming profiles on our domain network. We have one primary
> domain controller and 7 "home servers" at the various locations
> that serve the profiles and such. The problem is that randomly
> various users are unable to load their profile and windows just
> gives them a temporary profile. This mostly happens on vista
> machines but is not limited to that as it has happened on XP also.
> What is odd is the user can login as themselves on another machine
> just fine and other users can "usually" log in on the first users
> pc just fine. We have tried the standard checking log files,
> remove/reinstall pc into domain/ldap, remove/reinstall user into
> domain/ldap, etc but nothing seems to work. What we usually end up
> doing is reinstalling the users OS and programs. I know there has
> to be a better way to do this. Is there anything I may be missing
> here? Any pointers are more than welcome.
>
> Donny B.
Donny;
I have found that deleting the registry entry for the user will allow
them to download the profile from the server. Try deleting the
local profile and this entry in the registry:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\<SID of
User>
Should you look at this entry, you will see that the CentralProfile is
set to a temporary profile. You may just need to edit the
Centralprofile and perhaps delete the local profile rather than
deleting the entire key.
If you delete the entire SID entry, it will be recreated when the user
logs-in the next time.
--
PV
"We have met the enemy and he is us"; Pogo
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