FW: Samba PDC roaming profiles and problems.

[Gary Rule]

Forgive the second post. I have been able to get roaming profiles to work. I
synchronized the time with the server ( although I'm not sure thats what it
was ). I also removed the [Profiles] section of smb.conf and changed the
logon path to \\%L\%U as soon as I made the change it worked. I'm not sure
why since I had /usr/lib/samba/profiles set to 777 and the test dir under it
( that is the user name ) set to 777 as well for testing. I don't want to
keep the profiles in the user's home dir. Does anyone know why that might
have happened? Also it seems that the NT locally stored profile overrides
the remote profile. Under system it shows that the profile is a Roaming
profile.
Thanks
Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-ntdom at samba.org [mailto:samba-ntdom at samba.org] On Behalf Of
Gary Rule
Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 2:43 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Samba PDC roaming profiles and problems.


Hello all,
	I have spent the a few days trying to get my setup to work. I'm not new to
Linux but I am new to Samba. The more I read the more I fear the problems I
am having have something to do with my version of Samba not being new
enough. Here is my setup.

Slackware Linux 4.0 with Kernel 2.2.9
Samba 2.0.3
NT workstations 4.0 SP 5 IE 4.0 SP2
I have the Samba server setup as a PDC and I have added network machines
without a problem. I have also added users without much trouble. As it
stands right now when a user logs in they get their default shares and their
home directory mapped to drive h:. All is well. When I tried to setup
Roaming profiles is where things got me.

I have ( in smb.conf ) the following line:

logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U

I also have this:

[Profiles]
        path = /usr/lib/samba/profiles
        browseable = no
        guest ok = yes

in /usr/lib/samba/profiles/ I have made a directory test
chmod 777 test
I even did a
chown test.users test
just to make sure there wouldn't be permission problems for testing.

OK...I then logged in with test

It created all the default settings for outlook express etc etc.
When I log out however it gives me error (65) stating:


The update of your roaming profile failed.  Please contact your Network
Administrator. (65)

I also saw something about, if the time on both machines isn't the same it
could cause errors? How do I synchronized? If there is a good doc ( besides
the one on the samba site ) for NT Domains can someone point me there?
Thanks in advance


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