Major new profile problems

[Andrew Perrin - Demography]

Yes, we did that, and replaced the DEMOGRAPHY.SID file from the backups,
so I don't think it's a straight SID problem; Jean-Francois has given me a
direction to go in, and I will let the list know if/when it works.
Thanks!

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Andrew J. Perrin - aperrin at demog.berkeley.edu - NT/Unix Admin/Support
Department of Demography    -    University of California at Berkeley
2232 Piedmont Avenue #2120  -    Berkeley, California, 94720-2120 USA
http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin --------------------------SEIU1199

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Michael S. Hulet wrote:

> Did you make a copy of samba/private before you upgraded?  We have been
> warned several times to do this before upgrading.  If your domain
> SID changed, all your users profiles are inaccessible.  They are owned by
> the old domain SID/user so the users can no longer make changes to their
> profiles.  I had to delete the old profiles and create new ones.  Another
> problem was if a user had a cached profile on the machine, sometimes that
> profile would be used and then saved to the roaming profile.  This would
> result in the profile being unusuable again.  There were also several
> "saving profiles" ideas posted on the mailing list.
> 
> 
> Michael Hulet
> Network System Administrator
> ITTC, University of Kansas
> 
> 
> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Andrew Perrin - Demography wrote:
> 
> > Greetings-
> > 
> > We came in this morning to reports of a variety of problems that,
> > eventually, boiled down to the fact that many users were unable to get
> > entries in the HKEY_USERS. Here's my best stab at what seems to be
> > happening:
> > 
> > - Until last week, our setup was:
> > 	Samba PDC running on 1.9.19-prealpha (because it was stable)
> > 	Samba main server running same version
> > 		both on Solaris 7 (Sparc)
> > 	Lots of NT Workstation 4.0 SP3 machines in the domain.
> > 
> > - Last week, we upgraded the main server to 2.0.3 in order to use the map
> > to guest functionality, which seemed to work fine.
> > 
> > - NOW, after one person has logged into a 'fresh' NT workstation, the
> > second person to do so cannot create his/her HKEY_USERS hive. Login and
> > file service works fine; however, profile-related functions such as
> > default printer, Office file location settings, etc., return errors and
> > are not maintained per user.  This can be 'reset' by either re-joining the
> > domain, or deleting the roaming profiles of the users in question.
> > Thereafter, the first user to login works great; subsequent users are
> > treated as above.
> > 
> > - We tried reverting the main server back to 1.9.19 prealpha (make
> > revert), and things got worse: no file service at all, lots of complaints
> > in the log of 'malformed SMB entries - incorrect length.'  So we gave up
> > on that avenue.
> > 
> > - We tried upgrading the PDC to the current CVS code and joining the
> > workstations & main server to the 'new' domain. The joins worked fine, but
> > all attempts to login from PCs produced 'panic' errors in smbd and
> > 'incorrect trust password' errors on the NT side.
> > 
> > If anybody has any idea what's going on, or, even better, advice on what
> > to do about it, I'll be most grateful. 
> > 
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> > Andrew J. Perrin - aperrin at demog.berkeley.edu - NT/Unix Admin/Support
> > Department of Demography    -    University of California at Berkeley
> > 2232 Piedmont Avenue #2120  -    Berkeley, California, 94720-2120 USA
> > http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin --------------------------SEIU1199
> > 
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