[Samba] Users' Profiles

[Doug Campbell]

> I am having an issue with users' profiles under the SAMBA
> environment.  The
> users would be using a Windows XP Pro workstation that is under the SAMBA
> domain.  Ever since SAMBA was implemented, I would have to recreate users'
> profiles intermittently.  Whenever this happens, the users would be prompt
> with an error message which states that it is "unable to log onto
> the local
> profile" and it would eventually create a temporary profile when
> logging in.
> Just this morning, I made the attempt to just reboot the workstation when
> the issue happened again.  Surprisingly, it worked and I did not have to
> recreate the user's profile.  Do you happen to know why? What do I need to
> do to prevent this issue from happening again?

I don't think this is a Samba issue as I have had this occur with our Win2K
server and XP Pro clients as well.  Don't know what causes it but rebooting
the workstation seems to take care of the problem.

Doug