[Samba] Re: WinXP-SP1 breaks profiles...

[Gerald Carter]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, William Jojo wrote:

> 
> 
> Just thought you'd like to know that SP1 for Windows XP breaks romaing
> profiles up to and including 2.2.5.
> 
> This has been confirmed by MIT at the following link:
> 
> 
> http://web.mit.edu/swrt/winxp/
> 
> 
> See the section "Software Compatiblity Test Matix/Testing SP1"
> 
> 
> We have found this to be the case as well....
> 
> I'm cross-posting this to samba-technical as well....we will work on some
> traces for you guys....
> 
> Some (maybe) helpful messages when logging on are:
> 
> "The data area passed to a system call is too small"
> 
> "The system cannot find the path specified"

Jeremy is working on this for 2.2.6.

There is a workaround by setting up a policy about profiles not
having to be owned by the user.  Don't remember the link off 
the top of my head.




cheers, jerry
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