BUG in Win9x profile summary/clarification

D Davies djdavies at home.com
Sat Oct 28 21:58:36 GMT 2000


Hi,
Just so there is no confusion as to what I reported earlier,
consider this before and after illustration:

Before:
# ls -la /home/profiles
total 8
drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root         4096 Oct 28 14:19 ./
drwxr-xr-x   8 root     root         4096 Oct 25 19:58 ../

Now if I log into the SAMBA PDC using a Windows 98
computer, which is configured for profiles, while using
these relevant portions from my smb.conf:
logon home = \\me\profiles\%U
[profiles]
  path = /home/profiles

The 'Creating Using Profile' dialog box pops up, which
shows my profile being created on the server location.
But the logon home string is passed to the Windows 98
computer with the %U unexpanded, and you get the
wrong result:

After:
# ls -la /home/profiles
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   9 joebob    users        4096 Oct 28 14:23 %U/
drwxrwxrwx   3 root     root         4096 Oct 28 14:24 ./
drwxr-xr-x   8 root     root         4096 Oct 25 19:58 ../

# cd %U
# ls -la
total 36
drwxr-xr-x   9 joebob    users        4096 Oct 28 14:23 ./
drwxrwxrwx   3 root     root         4096 Oct 28 14:24 ../
drwxr-xr-x   5 joebob    users        4096 Oct 28 14:23 Application\ Data/
drwxr-xr-x   2 joebob    users        4096 Oct 28 14:23 Cookies/
drwxr-xr-x   3 joebob    users        4096 Oct 28 14:23 Desktop/
drwxr-xr-x   3 joebob    users        4096 Oct 28 14:23 History/
drwxr-xr-x   2 joebob    users        4096 Oct 28 14:23 NetHood/
drwxr-xr-x   2 joebob    users        4096 Oct 28 14:23 Recent/
drwxr-xr-x   3 joebob    users        4096 Oct 28 14:23 Start\ Menu/

I hope this illustration makes things clearer.  It should be a relatively
easy thing to fix I hope :)

Cheers,
D Davies






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