[Samba] Problem with win2k and winXP

[John H Terpstra]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Klaus Umbach wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a network, where users want to login with their same username from
> Windows 2000 and from Windows XP on a samba PDC.
> When the machines logon, I can see the OS in the logfile of the machine on
> my server, but i cannot use different profiles for Win2k and WinXP, because
> the %a in smb.conf always gives back Win2k.
>
> The profiles of win2k and winXP aren't compatible, so i can't just ignore this.
>
> I hope someone understood my problem and may help me.

One thing you could do is to create a Win2K mandatory profile. This way
the WinXP stuff will not get written back to the profile share. That is
the way I would solve it. Refer to the Win2K Resource Kit for info on how
to create a mandatory profile.

- John T.

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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org