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

[r.s1 at gmx.at]

Hello Christian
This what I expected with Win7 clients. But in my case XP and 7 are using the same profile (which shouldn't be), but from different shares. It seems XP is connecting to the profiles via my share [nt-profile] and Win7 via share [nt-profile.v2]. If i comment [nt-profile.v2], Win7 cannot connect to the profile (it starts always with an temporary profile). My <username>.V2 profiles are still empty. I never saw an logentry pointing to <username>.V2. Several hits in google answers just to create/copy a <username>.V2 directory and that's it. Which didn't work for me. [nt-profile.v2] was just a guess due to entries from the samba logs. The only possibility I see, is to define "path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u.V2" (or something similar) in [nt-profile.v2] to differentiate between XP and 7. Who is adding the v2 extension? Is it samba or Win7?
I'm running Samba 3.4.3.

regards Robert

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Sun,  4 Apr 2010 00:00:40 +0200 (CEST)
> Von: Christian Rost <cr at rocon-it.de>
> An: r.s1 at gmx.at
> CC: samba at lists.samba.org
> Betreff: RE: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7

> 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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