[Samba] PDC for XP: empty desktop and desktop.ini showing up

[rruegner]

hi, if sended it direct to you
Regards

Florian Effenberger schrieb:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> first of all: thanks a lot for taking so much time, I really appreciate 
> that!
> 
>> the profile for a new user is produced
>> by the win client machine the user is logged in for the first time.
>> The profile is created ( stored ) when this user logs of.
> 
> 
> That seems to work here, yes. I get a directory unter my profiles 
> directory saved on the server:
> 
> # ls /usr/local/samba/pdc/profiles/ -l
> insgesamt 2
> drwx------  14 user1  user1  1024 2004-09-27 16:05 user1
> 
> # ls /usr/local/samba/pdc/profiles/user1 -l
> insgesamt 529
> drwx------  6 user1 user1   1024 2004-09-27 16:05 Anwendungsdaten
> drwx------  2 user1 user1   1024 2004-09-27 16:05 Cookies
> drwx------  2 user1 user1   1024 2004-09-27 16:01 Desktop
> drwx------  2 user1 user1   1024 2004-09-27 16:01 Druckumgebung
> drwx------  4 user1 user1   1024 2004-09-27 16:05 Eigene Dateien
> drwx------  3 user1 user1   1024 2004-09-27 16:05 Favoriten
> drwx------  2 user1 user1   1024 2004-09-27 16:01 Netzwerkumgebung
> -rw-------  1 user1 user1 524288 2004-09-27 16:05 NTUSER.DAT
> -rw-------  1 user1 user1   1024 2004-09-27 16:05 NTUSER.DAT.LOG
> -rw-------  1 user1 user1    190 2004-09-27 16:05 ntuser.ini
> drwx------  2 user1 user1   1024 2004-09-27 16:05 Recent
> drwx------  2 user1 user1   1024 2004-09-27 16:05 SendTo
> drwx------  3 user1 user1   1024 2004-09-27 16:05 Startmenü
> drwx------  6 user1 user1   1024 2004-09-27 16:01 UserData
> drwx------  2 user1 user1   1024 2004-09-27 16:01 Vorlagen
> 
> Does that one look like your profile directory? Do the permissions seem 
> correct to you?
> 
>> So the first time profile is the first time profile from the win machine
>> ( whatever this is designed ) , so if you have leaving this all at 
>> default
>> it is the win standard thema relating to the win version.
> 
> 
> I did not change anything, but the theme is definitely wrong. ;-(
> If I create a local user, it's just fine.
> 
> What is your user backend? Do you use tdbsam as well and create your 
> users via pdbedit?
> 
>> Therfor you should not mix the win versions if you use  roaming profiles.
> 
> 
> It's an XP-only environment.
> 
>> The default function from profiles is to cache the profiles on the 
>> local  win client too, so it merges the cache and the server profile
>> at login this produces miracles sometimes, so best way is to to stop
>> caching of profiles on the client machines , this can be done by
>> reg entries or policies ( ntconfig.pol ).
> 
> 
> I tried that one out by using Win-2Kx-XPP-DeleteCachedProfiles.reg from 
> the Samba distribution. Didn't change anything about my problem. :-(
> 
>> After all ,things that you do to a profile ( maybe set showing hidden 
>> files of explorer etc ) are stored in the profile, and for sure should 
>> be stored on samba at logout, relogin should bring up the last time 
>> created entries.
>> Yes i have win xp srv pack 2 german clients.
>> did you controlled if the profile gets really stored at logout,
>> perhaps you have permissions problems on the profile share
>> so it cant be rewritten at logout
>> the log should show up more info
> 
> 
> It seems to work, as any change made is saved to the server.
> 
> Could you send me your smb.conf, please?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> Florian
>