[Samba] Switch profile from local to roaming?

[Zach]

Paul Geinger's idea below looks like it will work.  I've found a way
that you can force windows to replace the invalid SID in NTUSER.DAT
with a valid one, whithout trying to discover what the valid SID is
(they're very long and cumbersome anyway), and still preserving all
the profile's customization.

I'll post it under the Roaming Profiles:Samba PDC:WinXP:User must be local
admin thread.  

I never did try the profiles program.  I've got the samba 3.0.7 rpm
installed and the profiles man page is there, but I couldn't find the
profiles binary.  I'll mess around with that later.



On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:42:41 -0500, Misty Stanley-Jones
<misty at borkholder.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 September 2004 13:21, Zach wrote:
> > I'm currently trying to solve a problem regarding roaming profiles in
> > another thread.  In this case it appears the profiles weren't migrated
> > properly.  In my case I think (it was a long time ago) I simply copied
> > the the profile directory up to the server with a simple drag and drop
> > (I didn't know better).  In trying to solve the problems with a now
> > malformed NTUSER.DAT a google search turned this up:
> > http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/profiles.1.html
> >
> > It appears the samba developers are attempting to address this very
> > problem.
> 
> Thanks, that looks very promising.  I even have that binary!  However, how do
> I find what the user's current SID is?  We were in a workgroup environment,
> with also logging onto Novell Netware.  Does she even have a SID?  Do I have
> to go into her registry to find it?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Misty
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > See the thread,  Roaming Profiles:Samba PDC:WinXP:User must be local
> > admin, for more info.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:08:24 -0500, Paul Gienger
> >
> > <pgienger at ae-solutions.com> wrote:
> > > >doesn't do the smart thing and copy the user's local profile to roaming
> > > > -- it
> > >
> > > That would actually be a very *dumb* thing to do.  These are two users
> > > from two different worlds as far as Windows is concerned.  If you were
> > > to look at the SIDs of them (windows version of UID) you would see they
> > > arent even close.
> > >
> > > >So what is the real way to get this accomplished?
> > >
> > > Not sure if this is the 'approved' way to do things like this, but it
> > > always works for me when I have to migrate a profile from one dir to
> > > another, usually I use it when switching domains, i.e. from our 'one
> > > domain per site' to one global domain where the sid just can't match....
> > > ANYWAY
> > >
> > > 1. Copy said user's profile to a backup location
> > > 2. Move the 'Default User' profile someplace so that it isn't in the way
> > > 3. Copy said user's old profile to Default User
> > > 4. Log in as said user, the default profile will copy to the user's
> > > profile 5. Move real 'Default User' back
> > >
> > > Now there will be some things that aren't migrated but that depends a
> > > lot on your setup and what programs you run.  For the most part,
> > > everything involving the SID that Windows knows about will be migrated
> > > in my experience.
> > >
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