Accessing LOCAL files after login to NT-4-WS via Samba PDC

Andre Gerhard andre at lme.usp.br
Fri Feb 20 12:18:17 GMT 1998


>The problem is that for the purposes of file permissions and ownership, the
>NT workstation does not recognize the the domain username as a valid user.
>Thus the only files a user can modify on the local workstation are ones where
>everyone has full access.  They cannot "own" any files, because the file
>security dialog cannot find their username in the domain.

And the usual method to copy a user profile to a "Default User"
profile (System -> User Profiles -> Copy To) didn't work ...

Does anyone knows if there is any trouble in doing this by hand ?

TIA,

Andre Gerhard



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