[Samba] Roving Profile Issues

John H Terpstra jht at samba.org
Tue Jun 3 02:21:04 GMT 2003


On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, dan kador wrote:

> Hi Again,
>  I figured out what my problem was with the encrypted passwords - it's
> sufficient to say that it was an error on my part, not the software.
> Oops.
>  However, now I'm completely baffled.  I can login to the domain
> perfectly (encryption is on, by the way), my home drive maps correctly,
> the login script runs as it is supposed to, but I'm getting an error
> about my remote profile.  Specifically, Windows 2000 tells me that
> "Windows cannot create profile directory
> //servername/profile/username.pdt" and that it will use a local profile
> that will not be updated to the server at log off.  I cannot for the
> life of me figure this one out.  I believe that I've changed permissions
> correctly as well as group ownership of the profile directory.  Perhaps
> I've configured smb.conf incorrectly.  I'm really not sure what the
> problem is here.  Below is my smb.conf file - hopefully that will help
> determine the error.

So, your share is called "profiles" and your path is:

	logon path = \\cns-11438\profile\%u

Notice the "profile" withou the "s".

- John T.

>
>
> [global]
>   workgroup = mytest
>   netbios name = CNS-11438
>   security = user
>   encrypt passwords = yes
>   wins support = yes
>   os level = 64
>   preferred master = yes
>   domain master = yes
>   local master = yes
>   security = user
>   domain logons = yes
>   logon path = \\cns-11438\profile\%u
>   logon drive = f:
>   logon home = \\cns-11438\%U
>   logon script = logon.cmd
>   log file = /var/log/samba/samba.log
>   max log size = 0
>   log level = 2
>
> [netlogon]
>   path = /home/netlogon
>   read only = yes
>   write list = ntadmin
>   guest ok = yes
>
> [profiles]
>   path = /home/profile
>   read only = no
>   create mode = 0600
>   directory mode = 0700
> ;  writeable = yes
> ;  browseable = no
>  ; csc policy = disable
>  ; profile acls = yes
>
> [homes]
>  ; guest ok = yes
>   read only = no
>   valid users = %S
>   create mode = 0600
>   directory mode = 0700
>
> [public]
>   path = /tmp
>   guest ok = yes
>   writeable = yes
>
>
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-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org



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