[Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7
Damien Dye
damien.j.dye at googlemail.com
Fri Apr 9 09:20:54 MDT 2010
Also
please define your profiles path like
logon path = \\%L\nt-profile\%U
Regards
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Damien Dye BSC(hon)
On 9 April 2010 16:17, Damien Dye <damien.j.dye at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Humm
>
> right ok lets see if we can fix it what should happen is that the share
> should be connected too and there should be a list of profiles.
>
> Please define share defined as
>
>
> [nt-profile]
> comment = Client Profiles
> path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile
> read only = No
> create mask = 0600
> directory mask = 0700
>
> this should create a folder and all the profiles should be listed inside
> one username and another username.V2
>
> Also what is the profile path assigned to users.
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
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> Damien Dye BSC(hon)
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>
>
>
> On 9 April 2010 15:58, Rhshshgs Sdasdad <r.s1 at gmx.at> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> @Damien
>> I remove nt-profile.v2 and deleted all server profiles in Win7 but I still
>> was logged on using a temporary profile.
>> I found a msg in sambalog like: service [nt-profile.v2] not found
>>
>> @Linda
>> I made the same experince. There was never a profile <username>.V2
>> referenced and used.
>>
>> Now I'm fully confused in that topic. I my test environment (1 PDC, 1
>> WinXP and 1 Win7 virtual machines), I was able to logon with win7 using a
>> server profile with just <username>. The profile was newly created and empty
>> and samba had defined a [nt-profile.v2] share.
>> The same settings don't work in my production environment. I have the same
>> settings, defined a new user but Win7 is logging on using a temp profile. I
>> set log level to 4, inspected all messages but couldn't find any reason why
>> a temp profile.
>>
>> Does someone have a good tip for me for further investigation or a reason?
>>
>> This there a link available "How to setup samba with win 7 clients"?
>>
>> regards robert
>>
>> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> > Datum: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 16:37:34 +0100
>> > Von: Damien Dye <damien.j.dye at googlemail.com>
>> > An: r.s1 at gmx.at
>> > CC: samba at lists.samba.org
>> > Betreff: Re: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between
>> WinXP and Win7
>>
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > 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
>> > > >
>> > > > ===========================================================
>> > > > Dipl.-Ing. Christian Rost
>> > > > roCon - Informationstechnologie
>> > > > Glatzer Weg 4
>> > > >
>> > > > 44534 Lünen
>> > > >
>> > > > fon: +49 (0) 2306 910 658
>> > > > fax: +49 (0) 2306 910 664
>> > > > url: http://www.rocon-it.de
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > --------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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