[Samba] Roaming profiles
Jonathan Dean
jon.dean at deanuk.net
Fri Sep 13 11:57:00 GMT 2002
In your smb.conf you have 'U%' this should be '%U' or '%u'.
'%u' is the username that the client has been assigned and I believe '%U'
is the username they requested.
At 12:24 13/09/2002 +0200, Ronald wrote:
>Iam trying to setup a samba PDC. Everything works just fine when I log in
>with the root account on one of my workstations. But when I logon with a
>normal user account I get the following message:
>
>Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is
>attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile
>will not be copied to the server when you logoff. Possible causes of this
>error include network problems or insufficient security rights. If this
>problem persists, contact your network administrator.
>DETAIL - The network name cannot be found.
>
>A stripped down version of my smb.conf is like this:
>
>[homes]
> comment = Home Directories
> path = /home/U%
^ here
> browseable = yes
> guest ok = no
> read only = no
> writable = yes
> create mask = 0775
> directory mask = 0775
>
>[netlogon]
> comment = Network Logon Service
> path = /home/samba/netlogon
> guest ok = yes
> writable = no
> share modes = no
>
> [profiles]
> comment = Roaming profiles directory
> path = /home/samba/profiles/U%
^ and here
> read only = No
> create mask = 0600
> directory mask = 0775
>
>logon home = \\%L\%U\Win-profile
>logon drive = h:
>logon script = %U.bat
>logon path = \\%L\profiles\%a\%U
>
>What am I doing wrong? I can see that samba made a profile directory in de
>users homedir, but I think it has somethink to to with read/write
>acces...Iam using windows XP (without SP1), and a debian server.
>
>Greetz Ronald.
>
>
>
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Jonathan Dean
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Dept. Computer Science, University of Exeter, UK.
j.s.dean at ex.ac.uk www.dcs.ex.ac.uk
Network Manager, Dean UK Networks.
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