[Samba] XP clients unable to read user profiles (2.2.3a-14.1)

[Matthias Spork]

Hello,

> However, they still fail to read user profiles which were created by
> the old Win98 clients. 


Only NT, 2K and XP-Profiles are compatible. Win 95/98 has only 
rudimental Profiles.

matze

Martin Pauly schrieb:

>Hi everyone,
>
>thanks to John Terpstra's hint (teh old thread started with Msg
>crn5v6$sh8$1 at sea.gmane.org), our xp clients now do 
>join the domain :-).
>
>However, they still fail to read user profiles which were created by
>the old Win98 clients. 
>
>The relevant parts of smb.conf look like this:
>
>---------------------------- begien smb.conf ----------------------------
>[global]
>        domain master = yes
>        printing = bsd
>        encrypt passwords = yes
>        socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>        kernel oplocks = false
>        wins support = yes
>        printcap name = /etc/printcap
>        case sensitive = no
>        logon script = %U.bat
>        interfaces = 192.168.10.10/255.255.255.0
>        keep alive = 30
>        writeable = yes
>        map to guest = Bad User
>        security = user
>        preserve case = yes
>        domain logons = yes
>        workgroup = zentrum
>        load printers = yes
>        os level = 2
>        logon home = \\%L\%U\profile
>        debuglevel = 4
>
>[netlogon]
>        path = /netlogon
>        writeable = yes
>        guest ok = no
>
>[homes]
>   comment = Heimatverzeichnis
>   browseable = yes
>   read only = no
>   writeable = yes
>   create mode = 0750
>
>---------------------------- end smb.conf ----------------------------
>
>... and here's a snip form log.smbd:
>
>---------------------------- begin  log.smbd----------------------------
>
> unix_clean_name [/profile/xpsp2res.dll]
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 3] smbd/trans2.c:call_trans2qfilepathinfo(1634)
>  call_trans2qfilepathinfo: vfs_stat of profile/xpsp2res.dll failed (No such
>file or directory)
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(91)
>  error string = No such file or directory
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(103)
>  error packet at smbd/trans2.c(1636) cmd=50 (SMBtrans2)
>NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(860)
>  Transaction 125 of length 99
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(667)
>  switch message SMBtrans2 (pid 7193)
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 4] smbd/uid.c:change_to_user(118)
>  change_to_user: Skipping user change - already user
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 3] smbd/trans2.c:call_trans2qfilepathinfo(1613)
>  call_trans2qfilepathinfo: TRANSACT2_QPATHINFO: level = 257
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 3] lib/util.c:unix_clean_name(387)
>  unix_clean_name [/profile/shell32.dll]
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 3] smbd/trans2.c:call_trans2qfilepathinfo(1634)
>  call_trans2qfilepathinfo: vfs_stat of profile/shell32.dll failed (No such
>file or directory)
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(91)
>  error string = No such file or directory
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(103)
>  error packet at smbd/trans2.c(1636) cmd=50 (SMBtrans2)
>NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(860)
>  Transaction 126 of length 99
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(667)
>  switch message SMBtrans2 (pid 7193)
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 4] smbd/uid.c:change_to_user(118)
>  change_to_user: Skipping user change - already user
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 3] smbd/trans2.c:call_trans2qfilepathinfo(1613)
>  call_trans2qfilepathinfo: TRANSACT2_QPATHINFO: level = 257
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 3] lib/util.c:unix_clean_name(387)
>  unix_clean_name [/profile/shell32.dll]
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 3] smbd/trans2.c:call_trans2qfilepathinfo(1634)
>  call_trans2qfilepathinfo: vfs_stat of profile/shell32.dll failed (No such
>file or directory)
>[2005/01/30 23:35:28, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(91)
>
>---------------------------- end log.smbd----------------------------
>
>There are lots of similar messages some of which make sense
>to me (e.g. I don't have a logon script) . But I am suspicious
>of things like 
>profile/xpsp2res.dll failed (No such file or directory)
>File permissions are 755 throughout my user profile
>(located, of course, in $HOME/profile).
>
>Any ideas what's wrong?
>
>TIA, Martin
>
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