%a parameter in smb.conf and WinXP clients

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Pavel V.Zheltobryukhov wrote:

> 
> 
> I have a Samba 2.2.8a on Linux RedHat7.3 as PDC
>   with some Windows2000 and WindowsXP clients with
>   roaming profiles and OS-dependent logon scripts. So, I wrote in
>   smb.conf
> 
>   [global]
>   ...
>   logon path = \\%N\%U\profiles\%a
>   logon home = \\%L\%U\profiles\%a
>   ...
> 
>   [netlogon]
>   path = /home/netlogon/%a
> 
>   Logon scripts is working properly, but I found that XP clients save
>   profiles in \\SERVER\USERNAME\profiles\Win2K not in
>   \\SERVER\USERNAME\profiles\WinXP. After such "merging" profiles,
>   Win2K user profile is garbaged. You declared that Samba 2.2.8a is
>   able to distinguish WinXP and Win2K on the client side (and it
>   works for logon script). How I can solve problem with profiles?

There were patches posted for this.  The bug is fixed in the SAMBA_2_2 cvs 
tree.





cheers, jerry
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