[Samba] Roaming Profiles:Samba PDC:WinXP:User must be local admin

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Sep 28 17:07:20 GMT 2004


On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 09:40, Stefan Wegner wrote:
> Tom Skeren schrieb:
> ...
> 
> I have EXACTLY the same problem with Samba 3.0.7 and W2K SP4:
> Entering the Domain wit Admin-rights everything is fine (complete local 
> settings, etc.)
> As soon as i make this User a (local)User or Poweruser, i get a reduced 
> profile from the server although i still have
> profile acls = yes
> in my "homes" section (where the profiles are stored)
> Does this has to be under the section "profiles" ?
> 
> You are not alone and i'm very interested to get a solution as well, 
> cause i don't want to have Admin rights all the time.
> 
> Anyone has got the trick ?
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The 'homes' share should be differentiated from the 'profiles' share if
you desire to have expected behavior. Whether this is an absolute
requirement or not, I have no idea but I do know that I don't have a
problem with roaming profiles and haven't since 2.2.x and it still works
on 3.0.x

Craig



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