[Samba] NTUSER.DAT, user's settings

[Andi Limberger]

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Ludwig Meyerhoff wrote:

>
> Now, at the day "0" after reinstall, the users cannot work. The
> user's settings on the "Windows 2k Professional" machines are not
> adopted. They all have their desktops and own documents, but the
> keyboard settings and outlook-express settings are not taken from
> the profile.

I had the same problem with a big installation.

>
> I think it has to do with the users having new SIDs (as the PDC and
> the domain itself have changed).

The SID has changed, that's right. I think the tool I found named
profiles. I guess it's part of Samba. You take the NTUSERS.DAT of the
users and change the SID with this tool. Then the keyboard mappings
and outlook settings should be alright again.

"profiles -c <old_SID> -n <new_SID> path_to_ntusers.dat"

You get new_SID from "pdbedit -Lv username". I hope this works.

Greetings, Andi
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