[Samba] Re: roaming profiles problem for new users

[John H Terpstra]

Jon,

Please, please use the resources we provide before posting questions like 
this. Did you read the book "Samba-3 by Example" before you asked your 
questions  here? I think you will find a fully working solution in chapter 3.

The latest version (still being edited) can be downloaded from:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf

Note: The book uses SUSE Linux as its reference base so you will beed to 
adjust pathes and Samba binary names according to the way Mandrake have named 
the binary files .

- John T.

On Friday 06 May 2005 06:07, Jon Wilson wrote:
> Further supplementary:
>
> I now have a test machine set up, with pretty much the defualt Mandrake
> config (see below). My WinXP SP2 PC joins the TEST domain happily, and
> has no profiles for this domain on it yet.
>
> I can authenticate fine as a normal user, but I cannot do anything sane
> related to profiles. I just get "Cannot locate server copy of roaming
> profile" followed by "Access Denied" and a temporary profile. If I have
> a "Default User" profile under the netlogon share, this gets loaded into
> the temporary profile, which is something I guess, but not really very
> useful in terms of saving settings on exit.
>
> Does ANYONE have roaming profiles working under Samba 3.0.10, preferably
> on Mandrake Linux with WinXP SP2 clients? I'm tearing my hair out here!
> How can I find out what the "Access Denied" error is referring to?
>
> "TEST" PDC config follows:
>
> #======================= Global Settings
> [global]
>     workgroup = TEST
> #  netbios name = <name_of_this_server>
>     server string = Samba Server %v
>     load printers = no
>     log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>     max log size = 5000
>     log level = 5
>     guest account = nobody
>     map to guest = never
>     security = user
>     encrypt passwords = yes
>     passdb backend = tdbsam
>     private dir = /etc/samba/private
>     socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>     domain master = yes
>     preferred master = yes
>     domain logons = yes
>     logon script = logon.bat
>     logon path = \\%L\profiles\%u
>     logon drive = H:
>     wins support = yes
>     dns proxy = yes
>
>
> #============================ Share Definitions
> [homes]
>     comment = Home Directories
>     browseable = no
>     writable = yes
>
> # Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain
> Logons
> [netlogon]
>     comment = Network Logon Service
>     path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
>     guest ok = yes
>     writable = no
>
> # Un-comment the following to provide a specific roving profile share
> # the default is to use the user's home directory
> [profiles]
>      path = /var/lib/samba/profiles
>      browseable = no
>      guest ok = yes
>      writable = yes
>      root preexec = PROFILE='/var/lib/samba/profiles/%u'; if [ ! -e
> $PROFILE ]; \
>                  then mkdir -pm700 $PROFILE; chown '%u':'%g' $PROFILE;fi
>
> # This one is useful for people to share files
> [tmp]
>     comment = Temporary file space
>     path = /tmp
>     read only = no
>     public = yes

-- 
John H Terpstra
Samba-Team Member
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