[Samba] Windows Vista keeps on deleting cached roaming profile
erik bergsma
ebergsma1 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 03:22:06 MDT 2010
The problem is not that the server profile is empty (i did that on purpose)
the files get, and stay, there when i logout from the vista client
the problem is that windows deletes the clientside cached profile from
c:\users\username, and also the relevant registry settings :(
the mailinglist archive gave me some great pointers to speed up the login
process though!
2010/8/18 David Mathog <mathog at caltech.edu>
> > I have a couple of Windows Vista Computers that i freshly (re)installed,
> > updated to SP2 + all updates, and joined to my domain...
> > i also got an empty profile on the server (the storage folder is
> there, but
> > there are no files inside)
>
> Read through this thread:
>
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2010-May/156130.html
>
> and see if anything in there helps. Note, use "sort by subject" and
> read all entries in the thread, the thread links do not always find all
> thread entries.
>
> Relevant parts of my smb.conf:
>
> logon script = scripts\everybody.bat
> logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U\%a
> domain logons = Yes
> os level = 64
> preferred master = Yes
> domain master = Yes
> dns proxy = No
> ldap ssl = no
> csc policy = disable
> hide files = /desktop.ini/Desktop.ini/
>
> [netlogon]
> comment = Contains login script which just mounts PDB area
> path = /u1/usr/netlogon
>
> [homes]
> comment = Home Directories
> read only = No
> create mask = 0700
> directory mask = 0700
> browseable = No
> browsable = No
>
> [profiles]
> comment = user's profile directories, by windows version
> path = /u1/usr/profiles
> read only = No
> create mask = 0700
> directory mask = 0700
> browseable = No
> browsable = No
> profile acls = Yes
>
>
>
> Home directories are in /u1/usr/people, profiles are in
> /u1/usr/profiles. For reasons I do not recall the file protections are
> a little odd in profiles:
>
> ls -al profiles #edited to just show one user entry
> total 16
> drwxr-xrwx 4 root root 4096 2010-05-27 09:48 ./
> drwxrwxr-x 5 root root 4096 2010-05-12 15:32 ../
> drwx------ 4 mathog biostaff 4096 2010-05-27 15:12 mathog/
>
>
> My everybody.bat file is irrelevant to your problem, all it does is
> mount a data directory from the samba server. However, if you have a
> script in there it could conceivably be causing problems if it causes
> errors.
>
> Regards,
>
> David Mathog
> mathog at caltech.edu
> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
>
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