[Samba] profile problems with XP and my samba box

[Unix Rookie]

--- "Bradley W. Langhorst" <brad at langhorst.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 09:36, Unix Rookie wrote:
> > 
> > alright... before you guys nail the culprit as the reg issue... know that i
> > applied the reg fix right up front.
> are you sure it's applied to all the control sets?
> check with regedit.

Okay, i've checked all the control sets.... all of them have the sighnorseal
value of 0.

> > the system was working fine... i reinstalled XP last night.  i was able to
> > connect to the PDC after the initial root login.
> > 
> > however, now it seems that things are going all wrong.  i haven't changed
> any
> > settings on the samba server.
> you gotta provide more details than this...

what would you like to know?  the directory permissions on the samba server
haven't been changed.  for some reason, i cannot browse my shared samba drive. 
he'll i can't see the samba server in network neighborhood.

> > another thing i've noticed is that i cannot connect to the shared samba
> drive
> > for the user i login with.
> error messages? logs?
> 
> brad

these are the winxp errors shown in eventlog:

Event Type:	Warning
Event Source:	Userenv
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	1525
Date:		11/22/2002
Time:		3:06:04 PM
User:		HOME\sameer
Computer:	blah
Description:
Windows has detected that Offline Caching is enabled on the Roaming Profile
share - to avoid potential profile corruption, Offline Caching must be disabled
on shares where roaming user profiles are stored. 

Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	Userenv
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	1504
Date:		11/22/2002
Time:		7:29:18 AM
User:		HOME\sameer
Computer:	blah
Description:
Windows cannot update your roaming profile. Possible causes of this error
include network problems or insufficient security rights. If this problem
persists, contact your network administrator. 

 DETAIL - The network path was not found. 



what more would you like to see?  is there anything in particular you want to
see from the log.smbd or log.nmbd or even the xp box samba log file?





 


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