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

Damien Dye damien.j.dye at googlemail.com
Fri Apr 9 13:21:08 MDT 2010 

Also information about the differences and workarounds using profile
redirection can be found here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaming_user_profile


--
Damien Dye BSC(hon)



On 9 April 2010 16:20, Damien Dye <damien.j.dye at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Also
>
> please define your profiles path like
>
> logon path = \\%L\nt-profile\%U
>
> Regards
>
> --
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Damien Dye BSC(hon)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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