failure copying profiles, using temp profile

Thu Jan 3 18:58:02 GMT 2002

Ahh... switching to Samba 2.2.x solved the problem.  I tried it with the
profile stored within and outside of the home directory, both worked w/
Samba 2.2.x and not with 3.0 alpha.

Thanks!
-Paul

On 3 Jan 2002, Kohei Yoshida wrote:

> 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
> 
> > 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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