failure copying profiles, using temp profile

[Paul Miller]

Would it help to put the profile directory inside each user's home?

delete profiles share
set logon home = \\penguin\%u
set logon path = \\penguin\%u\profile

-Paul

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Paul Miller wrote:

> 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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