profile destroyer

[Mark Haney]

>> It has ocurred
for us when the registry almost reaches, or exceeds, the maximum size
specified.


I agree, I doubt multiple logins is a problem, even with roaming profiles,
which aren't specified as being the case in the original problem.  According
to all documentation from MS, a the registry size specified in the
workstation properties DOES NOT include the NTUSER.DAT hive.  This means if
oyu have 2MB registry space reserved that is free and your profile is 2MB,
you will see the profile 'blown away' and a default one used instead.

Even with roaming profiles, a copy of the ntuser.dat file is sent to the
workstation, not simply opened from the network location.  Please check
registry sizes and let us know.  I have run standard and roaming profiles
from NT and Samba DC's before and never had the problem _except_ when I
don't reserve enough room for my user hive.

Another cause I have seen is on a soft reboot and some extraneous data hangs
around in RAM and causes corruption, especially if the total amount of RAM
you have is pushed to the limit by NT just booting.
-----Original Message-----
From: samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of jahall at nea.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 11:59 AM
To: samba-ntdom-admin at us5.samba.org; samba-ntdom at us5.samba.org
Subject: re: profile destroyer


I have run into this problem on Windows NT Servers as well.  It has ocurred
for us when the registry almost reaches, or exceeds, the maximum size
specified.



Jay
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Hi,
we are running samba 2.2.0 preAlpha1 as an NT domaincontroller. The
clients are all NT 4.0 machines. Now we have the problem, waht sometimes
the dat-file of the profile will be destroyed during login on on the
NT-Clients.

It seems that there is a connection if the people are login on different
machies (but only serial not at the same time). It happens only
sometimes of course. Additional i must say that the clients are not quit
identical of the installed software.

We don't know if this is a problem of samba or NT. If anybody had
similar experience, i would be glad if he could give me some help.

bye,

bjoern


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