[Samba] Access denied when using samba as a profile server

[Markus A. Madlener]

adding 
nt acl support = no
to smb.conf 
solved the problem you described for me
grtx
mark

On 20-Apr-2002 Kimmo Akkanen wrote:
>> I have been using samba for a long time, but since our windows 2000 machine
>> are becoming unreliable (fileserver problems). I want to move users profiles
>> onto our UNIX/SAMBA server.
>> 
>> The problem I am getting is that when a user logs onto a client it is
>> unable to copy the users profile from the SAMBA drive to the local C drive.
>> 
>> I.e. unable to copy \\UNIXhost\user\winntpro\Application
>> Data\Microsoft\Internet 
>> Explorer\brndlog.txt to C:\Document and Settings\user\winntpro\Application 
>> Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\brndlog.txt.
>> 
>> ACCESS DENIED.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Andrew Watkins
> 
> We've had equal problems occasionally, they seem to
> come up without any specific reason. I've traced the
> reason to the local copy of the profile, located
> at sth. like "C:\Documents and Settings\username" -
> directory.
> 
> Check the permissions of the files and subdirectories,
> Win2K seems to take away the user's access rights to
> his/hers own local profile copy!
> 
> What I did was logon as Administrator, take ownership
> of the directories under the profile, and delete them
> all (they will be copied from Samba-server at next
> logon, with correct permissions).
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
>     Kimmo Akkanen
>     IT-Officer
>     Remedium Ltd./Oy
> 
>     phone.  +358 9 6226 7125
>     cell.   +358 40 9000 125
>     fax.    +358 9 6226 7114
>     kimmo.akkanen at remedium.fi
> 
> 
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