[Samba] Problems with migrating profiles

[Rob Fulton]

Not strictly a Samba question but hopefully someone has a solution. We run
samba as a pdc for an office network of 2000/XP machines, the machines is
old and dying, I have installed samba 3 on a new server and given this a
different domain name.

I can join machines to the new domain no problem, I can create new samba users and log in with them on the machines, the
problem is when I try to migrate users off the old domain to the new
domain. I create the new account on the new domain and then copy their
profile from their windows machine onto the new controller.

The profile I copy across will not work for the user correctly unless I add the user to
the local Admin group on their machines, the user is unable to customise
their desktop and any customisations that were in their profile are not
activated, ther start bar is locked and unable to be unlocked and no
history is saved between logouts. I have looked at policy stuff but it's
not obvious why migrating the profile, and specifically ntuser.dat, causes
the profile to break and require admin rights.

If anyone has any suggestions as to how to fix this or a better way of
migrating from one server to the next please let me know

Cheers

Rob Fulton