[Samba] Roaming Profiles won't save

[Jason Baker]

>
> One thing to note is the profiles live on the old Samba server and are being 
> mounted on the new server with NFS.
This is a tricky thing. You will have some strange permissions issues to 
deal with if you are tying to access the profiles from a mounted share. 
Why not just copy the profiles to the new PDC?
In the mean time, can you send a copy of the command used to create the 
mount?

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On 1/12/2007 10:50 AM, Jason Martin wrote:
> Hello! I am migrating an old Red Hat Samba 3.0.9 server to a new Debian Etch 
> Samba 3.0.23d with an OpenLDAP backend. I've got almost everything working 
> with the new server except the roaming profiles. When a user logs off, 
> Windows complains that the permissions are not correct and the profile can't 
> be saved. 
>
> I would LOVE to get rid of roaming profiles but that isn't an option here.
>
> I have read Samba-3 By Example, Second Edition and followed the roaming 
> profiles example, but it still gives the errors. 
>
> One thing to note is the profiles live on the old Samba server and are being 
> mounted on the new server with NFS.
>
> This is a small sample from the samba logs:
>
> [2007/01/12 10:27:25, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(352)
>   jmartin opened file jmartin/Desktop/prf11A.tmp read=Yes write=No (numopen=6)
> [2007/01/12 10:27:25, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(352)
>   jmartin opened file jmartin/Desktop/prf11B.tmp read=Yes write=No (numopen=7)
> [2007/01/12 10:27:25, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(344)
>   jmartin closed file jmartin/Desktop/prf11A.tmp (numopen=6)
> [2007/01/12 10:27:25, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(344)
>   jmartin closed file jmartin/Desktop/prf11B.tmp (numopen=5)
> [2007/01/12 10:27:25, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(352)
>   jmartin opened file jmartin/Desktop/prf11A.tmp read=Yes write=Yes 
> (numopen=6)
> [2007/01/12 10:27:25, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(352)
>   jmartin opened file jmartin/Desktop/prf11B.tmp read=Yes write=Yes 
> (numopen=7)
> [2007/01/12 10:27:37, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(344)
>   jmartin closed file jmartin/Desktop/prf119.tmp (numopen=6)
>
> I will gladly provide any other conf files and logs if they are asked for.
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
>