amazing tng-0.6

Tim Nijenbrink t.nijenbrink at pink.nl
Tue Feb 29 02:55:46 GMT 2000


I have been experiencing this problem to, and I substituted the NT username
string %username% for %U.
It seems to work for me.


> Vladimir Stavrinov <vs at lasp.npi.msu.su> writes:
>
> > Luck, my congratulations! - tng got new "feature" (once more new):
> > while login NT say me: "system unable to create profile
> > \\samba-pdc\\profile.pds". Logon path always setting up to
> > \\%L\%U\profile, but I first see this for a 2 years. It seems, like
> > %U substitution not recognized when login start, but when login
> > complete (with new local profile) share \\%L\%U exist.
>
> We have the same problem.  See passdb/sampass.c, line 115.  Although
> user->unix_name is filled in, user->nt_name is the empty string.  I do
> not know why.
>
> The attached patch is a workaround; it uses the unix_name as if it
> were the requested name (%U).  This is not a correct fix (I am looking
> into that now), but it does make my logon scripts and roving profiles
> work again.
>
>  - Pat
>
>



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