[Samba] roaming profiles

[Andre de Koning]

I got that fixed - the original samba was installed from source (cvs) and
this one I used the rpm - they installed in different locations.

I now have another, more pressing, problem though:

To try to fix the profile problem I took the machine (w2k terminal server)
off the domain and install sp4.  After the required reboot it now refuses to
join the domain again!!

Other terminal servers and w2k prof machines on the domain still allow me to
log on - is there something special you need to do when you install sp4?

Andre

-----Original Message-----
From: kurt weiss [mailto:input.maillists at kwnet.at]
Sent: 10 September 2003 01:36
To: Andre de Koning
Cc: 'Samba List'
Subject: Re: [Samba] roaming profiles


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:
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>>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
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>>>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
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>>
>>- 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?
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>>>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
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>>>
>>>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
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>>>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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