[Samba] Windows Vista keeps on deleting cached roaming profile

[erik bergsma]

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
>