Profiles ... again

[Phil Mayers]

I'm not really sure what your problem is. What is your smb.conf, and do
an 'ls -la' in the profiles directory.

Try creating a directory like this:

[root at gw profiles]# ls -la
total 3
drwxrwx---   3 nobody   users        1024 Sep 24 01:51 .
drwxr-xr-x   6 root     root         1024 Dec 11 19:35 ..

All users have permission to create directories - when they logon for
the first time, NT will use their local profile. When they log off,
their profile will be updated to the server (and the directory will be
created automatically, with the correct permissions).

Alternatively, create the directory, log onto the NT machine as LOCAL
admin, go control panel, system, profiles, Copy, browse to that
directory (making sure you connect to the server as the user, or adjust
unix permissions later on) and copy the profile that way.

Cheers,
Phil

Glenn MacGregor wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>     I have profiles working on pre-3.0.0 If I create a dir in the
> profile share and login as that user it creates a new profile for that
> user.  The probelm is that when i try to copy the profile from the local
> NT machine to the samba server it seems to fail updating ntuser.dat
> because everytime I login I get the welcome to Windows dialog box.  All
> permissions look good.  Is there a set I need to take for this to work.
> The reason I ask is if I leave the orig. profile that was created and
> try to run word 2000 it tries to finish the install but fails because I
> don't have the correct privs.  I think another solution would be to put
> an allusers profile but I am not sure.  Is there a way I can login to
> the domain as admin and run the install for all users?
> 
> Sorry about all the questions
> 
>         Thanks
> 
>                 Glenn
> 
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