W2K and samba PDC logon and remote home

[Toomas Soome]

Martin.Sheppard at csiro.au wrote:
> 
> > From: Samuli A Valo [mailto:savalo at cs.Helsinki.FI]
> >
> > 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.
> 
> We have a W2K native mode domain and a samba 2.0.9 fileserver which shares
> users's home directories. Profiles are located in each user's home
> directory. We have not had any problems with the machines that have so far
> been upgraded to SP2 (apart from something strange happening with windows
> appending .pds to the profile dir occasionally, but that happens with SP1 as
> well, any ideas?). What might be making the difference is that we have the
> following entries in homes share:
> 
>     create mode = 0700
>     force create mode = 0700
>     directory mode = 0700
>     force directory mode = 0700
> 
> > I was able to apply workaround and user can login now, but w2k will not
> > remove profile (mandated by policy -- ntpolicy + w2k local group polcy),
> > and every new login will create new copy of profile.....
> 
> We have profile removal mandated by a W2K group policy in Active Directory.
> We have not seen any problems with profile removal.

problem with profiles seems to be with samba 2.2.X, I have no resources
to test earlier versions. and yes, I have seen this .pds thing as
well...

toomas
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