[Samba] roaming profiles

[kurt weiss]

it seems, u have installed samba with a different type (source package?)

try to clean all binaries ("find / -name smbd" a.s.o.) after deinstall 
it over rpm.

then try to reinstall.

but first save smb.conf and write out your SID, will be healthy  :-)

Andre de Koning schrieb:

> I just did rpm -Uvh --force to reinstall wint 2.2.8a but smbstatus -b still
> says 2.2.5?
> 
> Andre
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kurt weiss [mailto:input.maillists at kwnet.at]
> Sent: 10 September 2003 01:16
> To: Andre de Koning; Samba List
> Subject: Re: [Samba] roaming profiles
> 
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> Andre de Koning schrieb:
> 
>>yeah, i did check the profile's perms.
>>No name still the same - I did however upgrade the samba version to
>>.2.8a  - It started before this though - the closest event I can think of
>>was upgrading the linux box from redhat 7.1 to redhat 8.0 which I think
>>upgraded samba to 2.2.5.
> 
> 
> look at 'smbstatus -b' for your version
> check, if there's different versions of files on your machine (smbd,nmbd).
> what does the logscripts say?
> 
> is the problem on a special machine or is it on a special user?
> 
> 
>>Andre
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: kurt weiss [mailto:input.maillists at kwnet.at]
>>Sent: 10 September 2003 11:43
>>To: Andre de Koning
>>Subject: Re: [Samba] roaming profiles
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Andre de Koning schrieb:
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>>>I managed to delete the temporary cached profile on one of the windows
>>
>>boxes
>>
>>
>>>but when I now log onto that machine with the user in question if get:
>>>
>>>Windows cannot log you on because the profile cannot be loaded.  Contact
>>>your network administrator
>>>DETAIL - Access denied
>>
>>
>>- chown user and chmod 0700 -R on the users profile on the server ?
>>- did u change the netbios name of the server?
>>- which smb version u are running now?
>>
>>
>>
>>>I haven't tried w2k sp4 yet - downloading now but what bugs me is that it
>>>did work before and only gave me problems from time to time - now it
>>>constantly does it!
>>>
>>>any ideas?
>>>
>>>Andre
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: kurt weiss [mailto:input.maillists at kwnet.at]
>>>Sent: 10 September 2003 09:50
>>>To: Andre de Koning
>>>Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
>>>Subject: Re: [Samba] roaming profiles
>>>
>>>
>>>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
>>>>Softline VIP Payroll
>>>>Tel: +27 12 420 7000
>>>>andre at vippayroll.co.za
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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