failure copying profiles, using temp profile

[Sylvestre Taburet]

Le Jeudi 3 Janvier 2002 17:16, Kohei Yoshida a écrit :
> On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 21:57, Paul Miller wrote:
> > Would it help to put the profile directory inside each user's home?
>
> No it wouldn't.  It's best that you have a separate profile share, and I
> understand you've already done that.
>
> I also need to say that I had no idea that you were using 3.0 alpha
> version of Samba.  That's a whole new different code (not to mention
> it's still alpha), and I'm just not sure how much of my suggestions can
> apply to 3.0.  I use Samba 2.2.2, and the following works perfectly for
> me.
>
> [global]
>
>     logon path = \\Server1\profiles\%u
>
> [profiles]
>     comment = Profile Directory for NT/2k Machines
>     path = /path/to/profile
>     writeable = yes
>     create mask = 0600
>     directory mask = 0700
>     nt acl support = no  #<- This shouldn't be necessary but won't hurt
> anyway.
>
>
> Inside the profiles share, there is one directory for each user where
> the name of the directory is identical to the associated user name.  For
> example, let's say you have users named albert, bob, charlie, david,
> edward, then you need to manually create under the profile directory:
>
> mode        user       group          directory
> ------------------------------------------------
> drwx------  albert     albert         albert/
> drwx------  bob        bob            bob/
> drwx------  charlie    charlie        charlie/
> drwx------  david      david          david/
> drwx------  edward     edward         edward/
>
> The gist of it is that each user must have a directory with his/her
> name, and have write permission to his/her own profile share (but of
> course other users shouldn't be able to even browse other users
> profiles).  If, for example, there is a user named frank, and there is
> no directory named frank under the profiles share, then frank will
> receive a "profile not found on server" (or something similar) error
> message when he logs in.
>
> As long as you follow this, the roaming profiles should work.  You may
> well have already covered all of this, but I just need to make sure that
> I understand your situation correctly.  I also suggest you try this on
> samba 2.2.2 if this doesn't work on 3.0-alpha.
>
> Kohei
>

IMHO you should check the perms on /var/lib/samba/profiles
I once had the same pb, and i realized that the profiles directory was 
root.root 770, thus preventing the poor members of my 'users' group to create 
their profile dir in it. I just chown'd root.users the profile dir and it 
worked ;o)

Also, check that URL if you have some win2kSP2 workstations. There seems to 
be a new issue introduced with SP2 preventing proper management of profiles 
with win2k and samba...

http://samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/samba/docs/README.Win2kSP2?annotate=1.2

Good luck!
(and happy new year 2002)

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