[Samba] Roaming Profile not found - replacement PDC

Chris McKeever cgmckeever at prupref.com
Sat May 24 14:59:20 GMT 2003


I think there are a couple solutions to this..I went through it myself..

samba side: you can set the /etc/samba/smb.conf
login path = 
login home = 

or, on the XP side use gpedit.msc and change
ENABLE 'use local profiles only'

I dont remeber the exact key path, but I made a post of it monday of last
week when I went through this as well.  dejanews microsoft.public for
'disable romaing profiles xp'

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Pritchard [mailto:gordonp at sfu.ca]
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 6:27 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Roaming Profile not found - replacement PDC
> 
> 
> Howdy everyone:
> 
> 	Forgot to mention:
> 
> Samba 2.2.7 (with LDAP, from rpm [not self-compiled])
> RedHat Linux 9 as PDC
> WinXP client, all patched up 
> 
> 
> 	Here's an interesting one:
> 
> 	I have joined a machine to the domain, and I log on.  
> Then, I get a
> message to the effect that the user's roaming profile couldn't be
> [loaded or found?], and a local profile will be used instead (and
> actually this also fails, but is not the point of my 
> question... I don't
> think).
> 
> 
> Background
> ==========
> 
> 	I took my previous PDC, and simply copied over all the 
> user files and
> directories to the replacement PDC of the same name.  I created
> same-named users on the new machine (LDAP) and checked that the
> directories and files are appropriately owned (they are):
> 
> root at trainwreck:/home/samba/profiles-> ls -al
> total 4
> drwxr-xrwt    7 root     root          176 May  9 14:54 .
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root           96 May  9 14:31 ..
> drwxr-xrwt   13 administrator Domain Admins      488 May  9 14:42
> administrator
> drwxr-xrwt   14 chris    Domain Admins      512 May  9 14:31 chris
> drwxr-xrwt   13 gordonp  Domain Admins      488 May  9 14:31 gordonp
> drwxr-xrwt   13 margaret Domain Admins      488 May  9 14:31 margaret
> drwxr-xrwt   13 root     Domain Admins      488 May  9 14:31 root
> 
> 	So, the user-data exists.
> 
> 	Why won't the WinXP client load it?  Would there be a 
> conflicting SID
> or something in my carried-over NTUSER.DAT file?  What should I do to
> correct this situation...?
> 
> 	TIA,
> 	-Gord
> 
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