[Samba] pdbedit and profiles

Collen collen at zeist.hermanjordan.nl
Wed Jun 15 07:12:28 GMT 2005


Do you have by anny chance the entry
logon path = \\some\thing
in your smb.conf ??

if not, try to add -d=10 to your pdbedit line
--> pdbedit -d=10 -u "ya-1" -p="\\\\cybserver\\netlogon"

and see what the debug shows..

Laters
Collen

Dominic Iadicicco wrote:
> For a test I tried to do this:
> 
> 
> pdbedit -u "ya-1" -p="\\\\cybserver\\netlogon"
> 
> It spewed out this :
> 
> 
> Unix username:        ya-1
> NT username:
> Account Flags:        [U          ]
> User SID:             S-1-5-21-4008386108-3466510086-266964780-2002
> Primary Group SID:    S-1-5-21-4008386108-3466510086-266964780-2003
> Full Name:
> Home Directory:
> HomeDir Drive:
> Logon Script:         logon.bat
> Profile Path:         \\cybserver\profile\ya-1
> Domain:               CYBRARYN
> Account desc:
> Workstations:
> Munged dial:
> Logon time:           0
> Logoff time:          Mon, 18 Jan 2038 22:14:07 GMT
> Kickoff time:         Mon, 18 Jan 2038 22:14:07 GMT
> Password last set:    Sat, 04 Jun 2005 11:29:34 GMT
> Password can change:  Sat, 04 Jun 2005 11:29:34 GMT
> Password must change: Mon, 18 Jan 2038 22:14:07 GMT
> Last bad password   : 0
> Bad password count  : 0
> Logon hours         : FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
> 
> 
> as you can see the profile path is not correct.  and I check that the
> ya-1 user was a vaild smb user.  I can log on to the domain with them
> and write to shares and use different domain resources.
> 
> 
> And as far as why it does show the NT username I dont know.
> 
> On 6/14/05, Collen <collen at zeist.hermanjordan.nl> wrote:
> 
>>What error do you get returned ??
>>(if none, boost your debug level in the conf)
>>can samba read/write to the passwd backend?
>>what does not work ? (coz here it does work)..
>>
>>Greets.
>>
>>Collen
>>
>>Dominic Iadicicco wrote:
>>
>>>I am using the standard smbpasswd, I think thats a backend.
>>>
>>>On 6/13/05, Tom Skeren <tms3 at fsklaw.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Dominic Iadicicco wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>That did not work.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>What passdb are you using?  LDAP TDB?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On 6/13/05, Collen <collen at zeist.hermanjordan.nl> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>pdbedit -u "username" -p="\\\\server\\path"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Collen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Dominic Iadicicco wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hello all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Could someone give me the command line to edit the profile path of a users?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I have tried this with no results.
>>>>>>>"pdbedit -u someuser -p "\\\\server\\path"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>There has to be better documentation.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>


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