[Samba] Problem with moving PDC to new server

[Kevin Bedford]

I tried a similar trick with the added step of changing from a tdbsam 
backend to ldap and found the same windows profile issue.  Strangely if 
the user was a local or domain admin things were ok.  I found the only 
work around at the time was backup the users profile before deleting it 
and letting windows create a new one and transferring anything important 
back from the old profile.

In my case the retiring server was CentOS 4.5 and the new one CentOS 5.2

Cheers

Kevin

Aaron Johnson wrote:
> All,
> I am in the process of moving a PDC to a new server, the config, *.tdb 
> files, linux user account files (/etc/passwd,shadow,group) and /home 
> have all been moved successfully, shares and authentication is working 
> great.
> 
> Issue:
> When I login and the system loads my roaming profile all my "recent 
> Programs" list are gone, I cannot add more programs to this list in the 
> start menu (no error just won't show) and it appears other windows 
> settings are not getting properly loaded either (i.e. I have a gray 
> start bar instead of my normal green/blue bar)
> 
> Background on the move:
> Old Server:
> Ubuntu 6.06(i386) running Samba 3.0.22
> 
> New Server:
> Centos 5.2(i386) running Samba 3.0.28
> 
> Clients:
> All Windows XP Pro previously part of the Domain
> 
> Any one have any advice for solving this issue?
> 
> Aaron