USING SAMBA AS PDC/Roaming profiles

[Allen Bolderoff]

lisa at usna.navy.MIL said:
> Hi:
> I saw your recent posting to the samba_ntdom mailing list.
> Sounds like you're able to download your profiles to your NT clients
> from the Samba PDC.

> What version of Samba are you using - Samba 2.0.4b or 2.1prealpha?

That is correct, I am using 2.0.4b


> Whenever I try to login to the Samba domain, the NT workstation seems
> to find my home directory on the UNIX Samba server and update my
> NTUSER.dat in my profiles subdirectory - but the Desktop never loads
> on the NT workstation.  Instead I am always returned to the "Begin
> Logon" screen.  Did you have a similar problem?

I created a directory for each user called username.PDC in 
/home/samba/Profiles/ .
I changed /home/samba/Profiles/username.PDC to be owned by the unix username 
and group.

I then added write permissions to the group that all users belong to for the 
netlogon share.

> Could you send me a copy of your smb.conf file?  Perhpas I have set up
> something incorrectly.....although [homes] and [profiles] locations
> seem to be resolving correctly.

> How did you set up your profiles?  Do you have a separate profiles
> share? Or does each user have an NT profile in their home directory?

same sort of situation.

> Any pointers you can offer would be MUCH appreciated....

# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from server (192.168.20.1)
# Date: 1999/07/05 16:40:35

# Global parameters
[global]
	log level = 4
	workgroup = BMTRS
	netbios name = SERVER
	server string = BMT Samba Server
	encrypt passwords = Yes
	passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
	passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password* %n\n 
*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
	username map = /etc/smbusers
	unix password sync = Yes
	log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
	max log size = 50
	socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
	logon script = %U.bat
	logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U
	domain logons = Yes
	dns proxy = No
	wins support = Yes
	include = /etc/smb.conf.
	domain group map = /etc/samba/domaingroup.map
	local group map = /etc/samba/localgroup.map
	domain user map = /etc/samba/domainuser.map

[programs]
	comment = Program Installations
	path = /home/%U/ProgramFiles
	read only = No
	browseable = No
[homes]
	comment = Home Directories
	read only = No
	browseable = No

[netlogon]
	comment = Network Logon Service
	path = /home/samba/netlogon
	guest ok = Yes
	share modes = No

[Profiles]
	path = /home/samba/Profiles
	guest ok = Yes
	browseable = No
	writeable = Yes
	write list = @brice

[tmp]
	comment = Temporary file space
	path = /tmp
	read only = No
	guest ok = Yes

[public]
	comment = Common Data Files
	path = /home/samba/data
	write list = @brice
	read only = No
	guest ok = Yes
	writeable = yes

[hpdriver]
	comment = HP 2100 Printer Drivers
	path = /home/samba/masters/hpdrivers
	guest ok = Yes

[msoffice]
	comment = Microsoft Office 2000
	path = /home/samba/masters/office2k
	guest ok = yes
[works]
	comment = Microsoft Works
	path = /home/samba/masters/works
	guest ok = yes
[officnet]
	comment = Office Net Install point
	path = /home/samba/office
	write list = @brice
	read only = No
	guest ok = Yes
	writeable = yes


[root at server samba]# pwd
/home/samba
[root at server samba]# ls -lR netlogon/
netlogon:
total 26
-rwxr--r--   1 root     root        24576 Jul  5 16:01 NTconfig.pol
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jul  5 16:01 scripts

netlogon/scripts:
total 1
-rwxr--r--   1 root     root           27 Jul  5 16:01 administrator.bat
[root at server samba]# pwd
/home/samba
[root at server samba]# ls -lR netlogon/
netlogon:
total 26
-rwxr--r--   1 root     root        24576 Jul  5 16:01 NTconfig.pol
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jul  5 16:01 scripts

netlogon/scripts:
total 1
-rwxr--r--   1 root     root           27 Jul  5 16:01 administrator.bat

[root at server samba]# ls -l Profiles/ 
total 273
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       270336 Jul  5 16:00 NTUSER.DAT
drwxr-xr-x  15 andrewm  andrewm      1024 Jul  5 21:42 andrewm.PDS
drwxr-xr-x  15 davidh   davidh       1024 Jul  6 21:03 davidh.PDS
drwxr-xr-x  15 johnp    johnp        1024 Jul  5 17:41 johnp.PDS
drwxr-xr-x  15 keithl   keithl       1024 Jul  5 17:21 keithl.PDS
drwxr-xr-x  15 michaelh michaelh     1024 Jul  6 20:40 michaelh.PDS
drwxr-xr-x   2 peterh   peterh       1024 Jul  5 16:32 peterh.PDS
drwxrwxrwx  15 root     root         1024 Jul  6 21:38 root
drwxr-xr-x   2 simanisr simanisr     1024 Jul  5 16:33 simanisr.PDS