[Samba] Problem with Windows 7 and roaming profiles

[André Egerer]

Thanks, but this is not the same problem. I do not get any error like "not fully synchronized". It syncs absolutly nothing (files on desktop, "my documents", etc). And there is no error in the windows event log...


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: John Drescher [mailto:drescherjm at gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Montag, 22. Februar 2010 16:36
> An: André Egerer
> Cc: Alex Ferrara; samba at lists.samba.org
> Betreff: Re: [Samba] Problem with Windows 7 and roaming profiles
> 
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:21 AM, André Egerer
> <andre.egerer at quintec.de> wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > thanks for your fast reply.
> >
> > Here the rights.
> > The profiles directory:
> > drwxrwxrwx 6  777 root 4096 2010-02-22 16:14 profiles
> >
> > A profile:
> > drwx------ 15 andre.drei primgroup 4096 2010-02-19 11:12
> andre.drei.V2
> >
> > Space should be enough:
> > /dev/md3              454G   32G  400G   8% /store
> >
> > The file system is ext3.
> >
> > Good to hear that it can work :-)!
> >
> 
> I have had some problems with this. One problem is caused by windows
> 7. I mean if I install an application and it needs to be elevated (UAC
> prompt) and this elevation puts files in my profile that I do not have
> permissions on in windows 7, windows pops up a box saying that my
> profile was not fully synchronized. The interesting thing is it is
> complaining about C: not my network side of the equation..
> 
> I have tried to eliminate this by adding excluded folders in
> 
> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ExcludeProfileDirs
> 
> I needed to do that anyways because my profile had in 4 days grown to
> over 8GB (and thousands of files) causing windows to take 5 to 10
> minutes to logon/logoff over a gigabit network.
> 
> John