[Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7

[Christian Rost]

Hi,

IMHO both profiles can stay within the same share, so you don't need a separate .v2 share. It's the same with Windows 2003 Server and a mixture of XP/ Vista/Seven Clients.

What you need to keep in mind is that Windows XP profiles are not compatible with Vista/Seven profiles - hence the ".v2" suffix and they're completely different profiles. When you're logging into Vista/Seven for the first time, your exisitng pre-Vista profile will be converted and will be renamed to <username>.v2. Each time you're logging into Vista/ Seven the "<username>.v2" profile will be updated, and each time you're logging into XP your "<username>" profile will be updated.  

Cheers,

Christian

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--------r.s1 at gmx.at wrote--------
Subject: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and	Win7
Date: 03.04.2010 17:02

>Hello
>I want to add Win7 machine to my Samba PDC with WinXP clients. Google
>tells me I have to add a .V2 to my profiles. The samba log ask about a .v2
>share.
>Can someone explain me the difference of the v2 extension at the profile
>names and the roaming profile share?
>Following my settings:
>
>smb.conf:
>[global]
>        logon path = \\%L\nt-profile
>        logon home = \\%L\nt-profile
>
>[nt-profile]
>        comment = Client Profiles
>        path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u
>        read only = No
>        create mask = 0600
>        directory mask = 0700
>
>[nt-profile.v2]
>        comment = Client Profiles
>        path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u
>        read only = No
>        create mask = 0600
>        directory mask = 0700
>
>
>ls -l /BUERO/samba/nt-profile
>drwsrwsr-x 24 kira     users  4096 2010-04-03 16:16 kira
>drwxr-sr-x  2 kira     users  4096 2010-04-02 18:59 kira.V2
>
>These are 2 empty profiles.
>I logged on to user kira with an XP client, set the background colour to
>green and logged of. Profile kira was filled with data. Now I logged on to
>user kira with an Win7 client, the background was black. I set the
>background to yellow and logged of. The profile kira.V2 is still empty.
>Finally I logged on to kira with XP and the background was yellow. So Win7
>and XP are using the same profile, which should be if I understand "mr.
>google" right. I thought I just had to copy the roaming profiles to a
>profile with extension .V2.
>
>I found following in the samba log during Win7 logon:
>  :
>get_referred_path: |nt-profile.V2| in dfs path \testserver\nt-profile.V2
>is not a dfs root.
>  :
>Connect path is '/BUERO/samba/nt-profile/kira' for service [nt-profile.v2]
>  :
>connect to service nt-profile.v2 initially as user kira (uid=524, gid=100)
>(pid 12087)
>  :
>reduce_name [.] [/BUERO/samba/nt-profile/kira]
>  :
>
>Further, there is a reference to nt-profile.V2 (uppercase V2) and next a
>connect to nt-profile.v2 (lowercase v2). What is the difference? Finally,
>the profile kira is used and not kira.V2. Why?
>
>Can someone explain me the correct setup of samba for Win7 clients?
>
>regards robert
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