[Samba] Samba 4 and Profile directory issues.

[Ricky Nance]

Yes, with all versions of windows after XP the .V2 will be appended to the
usernames, if you have a mix of pre-XP and post-XP machines you will end up
with 2 profiles per user.

Glad its working for you,
Ricky


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:52 AM, "David González Herrera - [DGHVoIP]" <
info at dghvoip.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>
> On 5/30/2013 8:17 AM, Ricky Nance wrote:
>
> Are you logged in as DOMAIN\Administrator to the windows machine?
>
> My own dumb mistakes, I created a remote desktop connection to that server
> and hadn't noticed I as logged in as a non admin user.
>
> Now home directories are created as it should and profile directories are
> too, but with the .V2 extension. I stheis the expected behavior?, I read
> that this might happoen uf I had mixed Windows clients WXP, Win7 but I just
> have one client and it's a Win7 one.
>
>
> Thanks for your advise it really helped. me.
>
>
>  Ricky
>
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:16 AM, "David González Herrera - [DGHVoIP]" <
> info at dghvoip.com> wrote:
>
>>  On 5/28/2013 6:59 PM, Ricky Nance wrote:
>>
>> Odd thing, your mail was from several days ago, but it just came through
>> on my stuff today. Lets try a couple of things, try changing [users] to
>> [homes] and also adding a line under global:
>>
>>  Done
>>
>>
>>  template homedir = /home/%ACCOUNTNAME%
>>
>> Done
>>
>>
>>  Also, comment out the directory_mode line, restart samba and then try
>> setting it in in your active directory users and computers as
>> \\10.10.10.5\homes\%USERNAME% and see if it works. Also can you double
>> check after these changes that your windows user can still write to
>> \\10.10.10.5\homes as well?
>>
>>  Done too but now, when I select a group of users and try to change their
>> properties the Home and Profile fields to \\10.10.10.5\homes\%USERNAME% it
>> returns Access is Denied (I haven't created any home directory) it usually
>> created the directories automatically after the PAM changes and all of your
>> suggestions it can't be done anymore, I-m sure it's due to some permission
>> thing but I just can't fiure it out myself.
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>>
>>  Thanks,
>> Ricky
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 6:43 PM, "David González Herrera - [DGHVoIP]" <
>> info at dghvoip.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi Ricky,
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for your reply, I dropped my subscription to the
>>> list because no one seems to care about these questions in there, then I
>>> guess what's that list for if they won't answer or at least point people to
>>> a link that won't take 30secs, well anyways....
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/28/2013 4:44 PM, Ricky Nance wrote:
>>>
>>> First think you should check is to see if winbind is setup properly
>>> (resolving names in Ubuntu as it should be) if not, have a look at
>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Winbind#Using_libnss_winbind (section
>>> 2 is the important one, section 3 is if you need *nix to authenticate using
>>> samba).
>>>
>>>  Ok, did all of these steps and everything seems to work, except that I
>>> can't login to the *nix box (ubuntu Serevr 12.04) using the AD users but
>>> system users can, that's good :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  A quick test would be mkdir /home/test && chown someADuser /home/test
>>> && ls -alhd /home/test (replace someADuser with one of your AD users). If
>>> that is working as expected, then the user you are logged into windows with
>>> may not have permissions to write to your Users share, if both of those are
>>> good, paste your [users] section of your smb.conf and we will go from there.
>>>
>>>  This worked fine indeed,
>>>
>>> root at samba:~# mkdir /home/test && chown dominic /home/test && ls -alhd
>>> /home/test
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 MUNDO\dominic root 4.0K May 29 01:34 /home/test
>>>
>>>
>>> My smb.conf looks like this:
>>>
>>> root at samba:~# cat /usr/local/samba/etc/smb.conf
>>> # Global parameters
>>> [global]
>>>         workgroup = MUNDO
>>>         realm = mundo.local
>>>         netbios name = SAMBA
>>>         server role = active directory domain controller
>>>         server services = s3fs, rpc, nbt, wrepl, ldap, cldap, kdc,
>>> drepl, winbind, ntp_signd, kcc, dnsupdate
>>>         template shell  = /bin/bash
>>>
>>>         # Debug logging information
>>>         log level       = 4
>>>         log file        = /var/log/samba.log
>>>         max log size    = 50
>>>         debug timestamp = yes
>>>         bind interfaces only = yes
>>>         interfaces      = eth1
>>>         wins support    = yes
>>>
>>> [users]
>>>         directory_mode: parameter = 0700
>>>         path            = /home
>>>         comment         = Users Home Share
>>>         read only       = no
>>>         browsable       = yes
>>>
>>> [profiles]
>>>         path            = /usr/local/samba/var/profiles
>>>         browseable      = no
>>>         read only       = no
>>>         writable        = yes
>>>         store dos attributes = Yes
>>>         directory mask  = 0700
>>>         create mask     = 0600
>>>         printable       = no
>>>         profile acls    = yes
>>>         csc policy      = disable
>>>
>>>
>>> [netlogon]
>>>         path = /usr/local/samba/var/locks/sysvol/mundo.local/scripts
>>>         read only = No
>>>
>>> [sysvol]
>>>         path = /usr/local/samba/var/locks/sysvol
>>>         read only = No
>>>
>>> Thanks again.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Ricky
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 7:50 PM, "David González Herrera - [DGHVoIP]" <
>>> info at dghvoip.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi List,
>>>>
>>>> I've been using S4 for some time now and I'm deploying it on our
>>>> company, I'm using it as backend auth for many of our services, OpenVPN*AS,
>>>> GroupOffice, Openfire and some others and it works like a charm.
>>>>
>>>> Now I want to tell you what I'm facing, I have a Win7 running the AD
>>>> admin. too and I can see everything users, groups all, I've created a dozen
>>>> users and I want them to have a home directory but when I try to do that
>>>> from the admin control tools and on the profile tab I input
>>>> \\10.10.10.5\Users\%username% and I see no errors and the weirdest thing si
>>>> thatwhen I browse the Users share on the server I see the directory, can
>>>> write to it, create directories, files etc; but the directory is not
>>>> created on the physical server which has my head spinning, might this be a
>>>> bug, or something I'm doing wrong.
>>>>
>>>> Samba Version
>>>> Version 4.1.0pre1-GIT-1a7bd5e
>>>>
>>>> Linux Version
>>>> root at samba:~# uname -a
>>>> Linux samba 3.5.0-30-generic #51~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 15
>>>> 08:48:19 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>>
>>>> Everything was done as per the Samba4 wiki, sorry if this has been
>>>> answered before and if you can please refer me to the proper thread so I
>>>> can see if I can solve the issue.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for a great project.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers.
>>>>
>>>
>>>   ---
>>> David
>>>
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