2.2.2 and Roaming Profiles with Win2k

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Wimberly Eddie Contr WRALC/LYSFR wrote:

> I have 2.2.2 running as a PDC.  I am trying to get roaming profiles to
> work and have read the related docs.  I am seeing the following
> symptoms.  After logging in on the Win2k box, it tells me that
> "Windows cannot create profile directory
> \\sambapdc\username\profile.pds.  You will be logged on with a local
> profile ...."
>
> In the [globals] section, I have "logon path = //%N/profiles/%U" as stated in the
> docs.
>  Using smbclient on the samba server to test, I enter "smbclient
> //sambapdc/profiles -U username" and get the expected results. But if
> I enter, "smbclient //sambapdc/profiles/username
> -U username", I get "tree connect failed: ERRDOS -
> ERRnosuchshare (You specified an invalid share name)."

Can the user write the [profiles] share and create the <username>
directory?  The initial error message normally occurs the first
time you log on and do have have a roaming profile stored on a network
file server.

Oh....and you cannot connect to //server/share/directory
It's invalid syntax





jerry