roaming profiles not updating

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

johnny,

try using cvs main's smbd and nmbd processes, or have the profile stored
on a _different_ NT-compatible server,and post the results to the list.

i expect it to work if you use an NT host to store the profile, and i
sort-of hope it works if you use cvs main's smbd.

thx,

luke

p.s follow instructions in SAMBA_TNG's source/README.

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, johnny t chang wrote:

> 
> *** THE PROBLEM
> 
> i'm running 2.1.0 prealpha ... Linux server w/ NT clients ... for
> some reason, when users log into the domain from workstations, their
> profiles are not saved back to the server ... AND/OR their profiles
> aren't being downloaded from the server.
> 
> 
> 
> *** SOME OBSERVATIONS
> 
> i set up a brand new client today.  when i log in, then log out, then
> log in as administrator on the client ... i can see from looking at
> C:\Winnt\Profiles\johnny (there is no local user named johnny) that the
> server profile has been downloaded.
> 
> then, if i log back in on the domain account, and change a setting --
> say the wallpaper -- then log back out ... then i log in as local
> administrator ... i notice that the local NTUSER.DAT file for johnny
> still has the old time (sometime in December) ... but if i open that
> registry hive with regedt32.exe, the wallpaper setting has been
> correctly changed.
> 
> now, if i look at the server NTUSER.DAT, the wallpaper setting has not
> been correctly changed.
> 
> the next thing i did was to manually modify the loaded hive, and then
> unload it ... this does then change the "Modified" time to today.  when
> i then try to log into the domain, i get a dialog that says the locally
> cached profile is newer (which is correct), and whether i want to use it
> .. i say "Yes," but the wallpaper is not the one listed in the local
> NTUSER.dat ... AND when i log out, the server version doesn't get
> updated.
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> thanks!
> 

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