[Samba] Re: win2000 service pack 4 - samba 2.2.2

[Angel Chiou]

>  At 5pm today, we had an individual notify me that their 'profile' no
>  longer was
> accessible from the samba server (solaris 8 , smb 2.2.2). The person just
> had their laptop reimaged and the new M$ service-pack 4 was installed on
> it. They can access their 'home directory' just not the profile one. Error
> is concerning the user not having access, versus rights. I installed the
> service pack on my w2k machine and chmod 777 my profile directory as
> well...same error. Defaults to the local profile instead.
> 
>  Note, the samba server reflects "samba_server_hostname\username" when
>  looking
> at the permessions from windows. We also found out that the migrate
> win2kAD accounts needed their profile directories on a windows machines to
> be changed as well...they use to be, "nt4_domainname\username". Had to
> change take control of the directory, therefore making the perms
> "win2k_ad\username". This then worked. Sorry if I didn't explain this
> well.
> 
>  I'm not at work now, I can forward more details after dinner if needed.
> 
> Thanks for any help or confirmation that SP4 is a problem,
> Adam Cody

I installed SP4 on to different boxes. Users can't load their profiles 
anymore either. I'm using Debian 2.2 & Samba 2.2.8a. Could you please 
explain clearly how you solved the problem.

Thanks for any help.

Angel Chiou