BUG in Win9x profile summary/clarification

Richard Sharpe sharpe at ns.aus.com
Sat Oct 28 21:50:15 GMT 2000


At 02:58 PM 10/28/00 -0700, D Davies wrote:
>Hi,
>Just so there is no confusion as to what I reported earlier,
>consider this before and after illustration:

Did you update from 2.0.5 or earlier?

>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

You cannot do this for Win9X from Samba 2.0.6 onwards. The reasons were all
sorted out last Feb (2000) or there abouts. Please have a look at one of
the document files, or go back over the archive or have a look at Special
Edition, Using Samba.

Basically, Win9X logons use a LanManager call to pick up information that
is used to locate where the profiles are, and this call does not have a
separate homes share and profiles share.

The best you can do is:

  logon home = \\%L\%U\.profiles

>[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
>
>
>
>

Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba






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