[Samba] Re: SAMBA PDC
Yovko Yovkov
yyovkov at nie-bulgarite.net
Wed Nov 3 20:53:44 GMT 2004
No, I have not problems with this...
The profile is created normaly...
When the problem occure, on the Windows machine I find that %LOGONSERVER%
variable is changed... So I think that the problem is near WINS, but I can
not find where...
Could you send me some smb.conf example which works fine?
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 22:47, Jim C. wrote:
> > Thanks for help.
> > OK there is attached output from $ testparm -vs
> > I have heard something about using SRV records in DDNS, are they
> > necessary in this case?
>
> I doubt it. I've never used them before and mine runs fine.
>
> This could be a profile permissions issue. Is your system having any
> trouble createing a profile with the correct perms/ownerships? To find
> out, use:
>
> ls -l /var/lib/samba/profiles | grep [username]
>
> Like so:
>
> [root at enigma 0 samba]$ ls -l /var/lib/samba/profiles | grep njim
> drwx------ 19 njim Domain Users 4096 Nov 2 23:55 njim
>
> Assumeing you want roaming profiles and not mandatory profiles, it may
>
> be best to omit the profdata share. My profiles section looks like this:
> > [profiles]
> > comment = Profile Share
> > path = /var/lib/samba/profiles
> > read only = No
> > profile acls = Yes
> > browseable = No
> > hide dot files = Yes
> > root preexec = PROFILE=/var/lib/samba/profiles/%u; if [ ! -e $PROFILE ];
> > \ then mkdir -pm700 $PROFILE; chown "%u"."%g" $PROFILE; fi
>
> Now for a test, you can create the users profile directory by hand using
> the correct permissions and ownerships. Then log in and if the problem
> goes away, you know that this is the issue.
>
> The root preexec statement mentioned above causes a short script to be
> executed before user login. The script I've specified above will check
> to see if the user has a valid profile and if not it will create one
> with the appropriate permissions and ownerships. One would expect this
> to be automatic but what I found was that permissions for the parent
> directory nescesary for automatic profile directory creation were
> unexceptable (i.e. the user could save or delete files in the directory
> beneath thier own which is /var/lib/samba/profiles).
>
> Of course this is a bit of overhead each time someone logs in. If you
> want a little more of a scaleable solution, write a short script that
> creates the directory as the user is added to the system.
>
> Let me know if this works for you.
>
>
>
> Jim C.
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