[Samba] Windows 2000/xp logon says cannot create profile

Jason C. Waters jwaters at h2os.com
Tue Aug 24 11:00:57 GMT 2004


I would try pdbedit -v username, see where the profile is pointint and
make sure the user can access that share as well as write to it.  If you
need to change it just do this, pdbedit
--profile="\\gentooserver\profiledirectory" username, and that will update
it.

Hope this helps.

Jason

> I'm running samba-3 on gentoo using samba as a pdc to manage users to
> designated shares and home directories.  I have managed to create
> users/passwords which create the shared drives using a batch file.
> However, when I do login with the user, it says it can't create a
> profile and forces the the creation of a temporary profile which is
> deleted when the user logs out.
>
> Is there a way to fix this using pdbedit so that the profile is stored
> in the profiles folder in samba-3?
>
> thanks in advance
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