[Samba] copy old profile - samba pdc - access denied

jonlists jonlists at cbsol.com
Wed Dec 3 21:50:08 GMT 2003


migrating a group of workstations to a Samba PDC-based domain. Machines 
join to domain fine, but when I try to copy the existing local profiles to 
the roaming profiles, I get a "Failed to set security on destination 
profile" - Access is denied"

I have added the domain user to the local machine as an administrator. 
When attempting to do the copy, I am logged into the samba domain as root. 
When I do the copy, I'm doing the following on Windows XP: 

Control Panel/System - Advanced - User Profiles - 

I select the old profile - which was local only (machine wasn't previously 
in another domain). I select Copy To, then browse to select the local 
documents and settings folder for the Samba domain user. 

Under "permitted to use" - I select the Samba domain as the location. I 
enter the user's name, then check name, and the user name is returned 
without error in the form of DOMAIN/user. 

However, when I attempt to do the copy, I get the error: "Failed to set 
security on destination profile" - Access is denied"

ideas? 

Jon Johnston
Creative Business Solutions
IBM, Lotus, Microsoft Consultants
http://www.cbsol.com
952-544-1108 


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