failure copying profiles, using temp profile

Paul Miller paul at pinheiro.tcimet.net
Wed Jan 2 16:37:02 GMT 2002


My Samba (3.0 cvs) server is running as a PDC and I also have "nt acl
support = no" in the global section and the profiles share.  The profiles
share is located outside of the home directory.  Any other ideas?

Thanks
-Paul

On 2 Jan 2002, Kohei Yoshida wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 16:18, Paul Miller wrote:
> > yes, I run net to synchronize the client's time in the logon script.  This
> > error occurs before the client runs the logon script...?  I double checked
> > if the logon script is working, and it is -- the time is corrected on a
> > successful logon.  Should I synchronize the time? 
> 
> No.  You've already covered that.
> 
> > But still, why would windows complain about a file not being found?
> 
> Hmm...  I'll give you two other things that I know of related to serving
> profiles on Samba.  
> 
> 1) If you use a Samba server (not as a PDC) to serve profiles for Win2k
> SP2, you must add "nt acl support = no" to the profile share, or you'll
> get "Access Denied" message (per docs/README.Win2kSP2 included in the
> source package of samba 2.2.2).
> 
> 2) If the profile share is inside the home share, sometimes a Windows
> client can't find the profile share, because it is not a guarantee that
> the client connects to the home share before it does the profile share. 
> 
> 
> Unfortunately these are all I know regarding profiles.  If these don't
> help, maybe others can help?  :)
> 
> Kohei
> 
> > -Paul
> > On 2 Jan 2002, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 14:56, Paul Miller wrote:
> > > > (C) Everything works if I delete the user profile and he/she logs in/out
> > > > again... but soon screws up when logging in on multiple computers with
> > > > different versions of windows, etc.
> > > 
> > > This is just a quick guess, but do you have your client machines
> > > synchronize their time with the Samba server (or whatever time server
> > > that you may have available)?  I've never had this type of problem so I
> > > may be totally wrong, but I saw someone mention on this list (a fairly
> > > long time ago) that if the time is not properly synchronized, it may
> > > cause a problem when downloading/uploading profiles. This is because
> > > Windows relies on this to determine whether or not to update the local
> > > profile data.
> > > 
> > > Just a thought.
> > > 
> > > Kohei
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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