[Samba] roaming profiles

[kurt weiss]

hi andre
see below for my comments.

Andre de Koning schrieb:

> Hi all.
> 
> I'm runnig samba as a DC with win2k clients using roaming profiles.
> 
> Since installation I have been experiencing problems with users unable to
> log in due to their profiles not loading - some users are on w2k prof end
> some use w2k terminal services.

> 
> It maily complains about not being able to load (or copy) files like
> "prf23.tmp" - access denied etc.
> 
> Most of the time if I delete the file in question in eg.
> "profiledir/Nethood", "profiledir/Application Data/Microsoft/Office/Recent"
> en when I log on again it works.
> 
> It now started the profile cannot be loaded bacause some file cannot be
> copied and when I go delete the file in the profile dir in the samba box and
> try again as usual it still tells me that the profile "cannot be loaded -
> logging you in with a temporary profile" - when I click OK a box just pops
> up saying "profile cannot be loaded - access denied".
> 
> This seems to be entirely random - different client machines and terminal
> servers and different user accounts every time.  Sometimes I have to restart
> the w2k terminal server for the problem to go away and sometimes I have to
> restart smb on the linux box.  This always only fixes some of the users'
> logins but others can't log in again - it also only lasts for about 3 hours
> that were back when we started.
> 
> Sometimes I have to completely delete a user's profile and log into w2k for
> it to be recreated before it works again.
> 
> I also noticed than if I try to delete the temporary copy of the user's
> profile in "Documents and Settings" just after I got the problem I get
> "Access Denied" or "Cannot delete, directory not empty" messages from
> windows.  When this happens, changing the permissions or ever changing the

this is the problem...
your client-side copy is damaged. u *must* get ownership for the broken 
files as administrator, then u can correct the rights.
this u have to do with *every* broken file. (sh.. i know...)

we had the same problems. for me it seems, that it's a w2k problem. 
especially therefore, that ms has corrected such failures in sp4.

as far as we used samba 2.2.2 we used the switch
NT ACL SUPPORT = no
in smb.conf for the profile share to prevent us from this issue.

in samba 2.2.8a all is running fine without this switch.
but we've allready installed sp4 on *all* our w2k clients.

> files' ownership to Administrator does not help - I have to restart the
> machine completely.

restarting the client helps?

> 
> I was originally runnig samba 2.2.1a and tried upgrading to 2.2.3, 2.2.5 and
> this morning to 2.2.8a.  I also upgraded from redhat 6 to 7 to 7.1 and last
> week to 8.0 but this does not make any difference.  I've tried service pack
> 2 and 3 on the w2k boxes but to 4 - some of my software does not work when 4
> is loaded.

i've only checked this two configurations:

samba 2.2.2 with 'NT ACL SUPPORT = no' on the profile share
w2k sp2 and sp3

samba 2.2.8a *without* 'NT ACL SUPPORT = no' on the profile share
w2k sp4
('NT ACL SUPPORT = no' was not running in this case, but i can't remind 
the symptoms.)

i hope it helped. - let me know
gk


> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> André de Koning
> IT Manager
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> Tel: +27 12 420 7000
> andre at vippayroll.co.za
>