[Samba] user profil wipe in a samba 4 AD domain

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 11 05:04:24 MDT 2015


On 11/06/15 11:28, joseph-andre Guaragna wrote:
> No they used to be in WORKGROUP.
>
> As we have an heterogeneous fleet 25 Linux and 7 windows 7. We decide
> to move a more centralised way of identifying our users.
>
> At first everything work then, we ran in the situation described below.
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> Meilleures salutations / Best regards,
>
> Joseph-André GUARAGNA
> ingénieur Système et Réseau / Network and System engineer
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> 2015-06-11 11:59 GMT+02:00 Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>:
>> On 11/06/15 10:13, joseph-andre Guaragna wrote:
>>> 2015-06-11 11:03 GMT+02:00 Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>:
>>>> On 11/06/15 08:09, joseph-andre Guaragna wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> We have set up an Active Directory using samba4 (Zentyal), everything
>>>>> seems to be all right tilll the point were user profile are wiped out.
>>>>
>>>> What do you mean by 'user profile are wiped out' ?
>>> I mean all user data wiped
>>>> Do you mean just one user is removed ?
>>> all user from the workstation
>>>> Or something else ?
>>>>
>>>> How is the 'wiping' being done ?
>>> the user's folder still exist but there is no data, it is like is
>>> recreated the whole profile
>>>>> We noticed when one of our linux uer tryed to connect to a windows
>>>>> workstation. It was allow so it juste created the user on the windows
>>>>> workstation. Few minutes later we realize that every domain account on
>>>>> the windows box were wiped, and the linux account also wiped.
>>>>
>>>> So the user can login but all other domain accounts on the PC have gone,
>>>> Do
>>>> the domain Accounts still exist on the AD DC ?
>>> Yes the users still exists on the domain, and can still connect on any
>>> workstation they are supposed to.
>>>>
>>>>> We could not find any reason for that, nor explanation in the log, I
>>>>> may be missing something as I could not understand all the mechanisms
>>>>> involved.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> we use samba 4.0. and pbis 8.2 client on the linux boxes.
>>>>>
>>>> Rowland
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your help
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>    Joseph GUARAGNA
>>
>> Taking this back on list where it belongs.
>>
>> I think I understand your problem now, but just a few questions to confirm
>> what I am thinking.
>> Were your windows machines part of a domain before ?
>> If so, what type of domain ?
>> If there was a domain, what was the server ?
>>
>> Rowland
>>
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Will you please not send posts directly to me, please reply to the list.

OK, your answer confirms what I thought, your original profiles haven't 
gone away, they will still be there, but you cannot see them because 
they are 'local' profiles and you are now using 'domain' profiles.

i.e. local user joe is NOT the same user as DOMAIN\joe

Rowland


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