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

[Rowland Penny]

On 11/06/15 12:56, joseph-andre Guaragna wrote:
> OK for the local profiles. I got both of them one call joe and the
> other domain.joe.
> Saw it, no problem about that. I copied the data from local to domain one.
>
> The thing is that after few days the domain.joe was emptied. The joe
> did stay the same.
>
> And I do not get why the domain.joe got blanked (all data gone)
>
> Cheers for the help
>
> Meilleures salutations / Best regards,
>
> Joseph-André GUARAGNA
> ingénieur Système et Réseau / Network and System engineer
>
>
>
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>
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>
> 2015-06-11 13:04 GMT+02:00 Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>:
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Meilleures salutations / Best regards,
>>>
>>> Joseph-André GUARAGNA
>>> ingénieur Système et Réseau / Network and System engineer
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> RD MACHINES-OUTILS
>>>
>>> 77, allée de l'Industrie  F-74130 CONTAMINE SUR ARVE
>>> Tel : +33 (0) 4 50 03 90 77    -   Fax :+33 (0) 4 50 03 66 79
>>> www.rdmo.com / www.rdmo-spare-parts.com
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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I think you need to understand profiles a bit better, start here: 
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_%26_Windows_Profiles

Rowland