[Samba] Strange problem with icons on the desktop

Shannon Johnson sjohnson at engr.psu.edu
Wed May 26 13:10:05 GMT 2004


I don't have roaming profiles set up at all. The "home directory" that I'm using on the Windows server is just a shared folder... I just set it up for testing.

Shannon

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Shannon Johnson
Network Support Specialist / Systems Administrator
Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
224 Reber Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-8267
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: daves-jr at cecom.ufmg.br [mailto:daves-jr at cecom.ufmg.br]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 4:51 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Strange problem with icons on the desktop
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think your roaming profile arent "syncronising" righ.
> Try to use:
> 
> NT/XP/2K
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
> "DeleteRoamingCache"=dword:00000001
> 
> and csc policy = programs  on your [profiles]
> 
> Here it works
> 
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> 
> samba-bounces+daves-jr=ufmg.br at lists.samba.org wrote on 25/05/2004
> 15:31:50:
> 
> >
> > Thanks everyone for helping me get the home directories working over
> > SMB, especially Ben Ford for his workaround for the Xauth and GDM.
> >
> > Now I've got a problem that, most likely, nobody's ever noticed
> > before... or is something specific to me. I've got a Linux client, and a
> > Samba server, and a Windows 2000 server, both set up EXACTLY the same.
> > I've got a test user and the home directory that is mounting
> > automatically with pam_mount. I set up everything so I only have to
> > change 1 character in the pam_mount.conf file to switch the mounting
> > from one server to the other, just to ensure that there's no typo or
> > anything. Both servers have EXACTLY the same files in the test user's
> > home directory, just to ensure there's no configuration difference, or
> > different file types or anything.
> >
> > Here's the problem: When I log in, and pam_mount mounts the home
> > directory from the Samba server, everything works perfectly. When I log
> > in, and pam_mount mounts the home directory from the Windows 2000
> > server, things get a little weird. For instance, if I log in, and move a
> > couple icons to different places on the desktop, then log out, when I
> > log back in, they'll be back to their original locations. Also, for
> > reasons entirely mysterious to me, when it mounts the home directory
> > from the Windows 2000 server, occasionally the buttons on the Gnome
> > panel will be gone. If I destroy the profile and copy everything from
> > the Samba server back to the Windows server, they re-appear... but they
> > may disappear again without warning.
> >
> > Both servers are being mounted with SMB, using the same username, same
> > password, authenticated through the same server, have the same programs
> > installed, coming from the same IP, with no firewall or anything in
> > between. I have configured both servers to be as similar in operation to
> > each other as possible. Anybody have any ideas?
> >
> > Shannon
> >
> > ____________________________
> >
> > Shannon Johnson
> > Network Support Specialist / Systems Administrator
> > Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
> > 224 Reber Building
> > University Park, PA 16802
> > Phone: (814) 865-8267
> > ____________________________
> >
> >
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