[Samba] Re: roaming profiles

[Jonathan Dean]

I've been seeing this problem on winXP clients I'm afraid I can't offer a 
solution but if you solve the 'problem' I would be very interested to know how!
Cheers,
Jon

At 14:14 13/09/2002 +0200, Ronald wrote:
>I think I got everything to work now..
>I removed changed /home/samba/profiles/U% to /home/samba/profiles
>But everytime I log on, a text file called desktop also open with the 
>following in it:
>[.ShellClassInfo]
>LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21787
>Its not really a problem, but just kinda annoying...Does anyone know how I 
>can remove this?
>
>Greetz ronald.
>hi!
>
>try:
>path = /home/samba/profiles
>instead of
>path = /home/samba/profiles/U%
>
>best regards
>thomas reisenbichler
>
>
>
>>>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%
>>>   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%
>>>        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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