2.2.2 and Roaming Profiles with Win2k

[Dave Stevenson]

I may be wrong about this but...(with flame retardent clothing applied.)

isnt logon path= ... something that's passed to the NT/2000 box so maybe the
slashes should be \\ rather than // ?? - or maybe that's just too simple
certainly \\ works for me :-)

"Gerald (Jerry) Carter" wrote:

> 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

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