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

[Damien Dye]

Robert

remove the .V2 share and then remove your profiles from vista/win 7 at this
reg key

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

then all will work as expected.


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Damien Dye BSC(hon)



On 4 April 2010 16:15, <r.s1 at gmx.at> wrote:

> 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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