W2K and samba PDC logon and remote home

[Samuli A Valo]

We have the same problem. Our enviroment consist of W2k domain in native
mode (w2k sp2 server) and samba 2.2 fileserver, which shares users home
directorys. Profiles are located in each users home directory. Everything
works fine as long as client machine is not w2k sp2.

I have not yet find any way to get sp2 working in this configuration.
Problem seems to be something like that: when user logon to the domain,
client machine tries to copy profile to 'c:\documents and settings\username',
which fails, if same user has previously logged to same computer.

W2k tries to write profile to the same directory. This fails because the
directory is owned by unknown SID (w2k can not translate it to name, and
it does not match that of loggin user).

Anyone has any ideas or suggestion? I'm willing to debug this problem
further, but I'm currently out of ideas...


On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Toomas Soome wrote:

> I investigated the problem and found that user home was on another
> server -- and profile as well. so the (temporary?) workaround was simple
> -- I had to set up profile path for user to use the logon server name.
> this solved profile permission problem for w2k. there is no problem
> AFAIK with nt4...

So you have two servers, for example LOGON_SERVER and HOMEDIR_SERVER, and
your profile was on \\HOMEDIR_SERVER\somedir, and you set it to
\\LOGON_SERVER\somedir?

hmm.. That solution might be hard for me to use, because we want domain
logon to be done on 'real' w2k server, but have policy of no windows
hosted filesharing (not to even mention IIS)...

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