[Samba] Samba 4.5.8-Debian User Profiles on NFS-Share

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 23 May 2017 14:49:27 +0200
"Franz Gansberger" <franz.gansberger at boku.ac.at> wrote:

> 
> Yeah. :-)
> Wouldn't this require the "storage server" to be member of the
> domain?! Since I'm in the process of migrating WS to the new
> environment, the old PDC can't be demounted right now, so my
> paswords, due to a re-evaluating even some of the usernames are
> different.  

Yes, you would need to setup a Unix domain member and join this to the
domain. Just an heads up, if you are still running a PDC, do not join
any of your domain computers to the AD domain, there is no going back.

> Agree! But - me as an admin, running on a stable environment (e.g.
> Debian Jessie) can only use the rather old 4.1.6 Samba. The
> developement made big progress in the meantime, and if I would build
> from source I'm on 4.6.3. And now the wiki. Valid for which
> version? ;-) I decided to run on Strecht, which brought me to
> 4.5.8...  So now im on average - with knowledge inbetween. ;-)

Can I suggest you use Louis's packages, they are stable on jessie (they
even work on Devuan jessie)

> >If only one profile isn't working then probably there is a problem
> >with that profile.
> 
> All profiles behaving the same. I have a couple of test users, always
> starting from scratch (Registry Profile list cleaned, User deleted,
> Profile deleted, ...
> 

They should work, but if they don't, post a level 10 log.

Rowland