[Samba] Roaming Profile Mix-Up Between Users

[Matthew Easton]

On Friday 03 June 2005 04:39, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> Marian Steinbach schrieb:

> > We have both WinXP and Win2000 workstations. Users where able to use
> > their roaming profile on both systems back when we used the NT PDC and
> > we would like them to so with the Samba PDC.
> >
> > We hold user data in an LDAP backend.
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Marian
>
> Hi,
> roaming Profiles in a mixed setup of win xp and 2000 server will get you
> in failures ,dont do this ( or mess with profile bugs ).
> Try to upgrade all clients to xp with a nearly equal software install,
> and patch level.
> ( this is a windows issue not related to samba anyway )

Hmm...  What's wrong with my setup?  I've never had that problem so far with 
an installation that started in 2000 with samba 2.x and all windows 2000, now 
has an additional 4 or 5 WinXP users and samba 3.x.  Perhaps it's because we 
aren't using LDAP?