[Samba] Windows 10 1709 detected as OSX

[Christian Naumer]

Has anybody seen this in their environment? Or can check if using %a in
logging if this is always the case for release 1709 of Windows10?

Regards


Christian

Am 23.04.2018 um 13:48 schrieb Christian Naumer via samba:
> Hello all,
> I have a weird problem. We have several Windows 10 machines on our
> Network. All but one run older releases than 1709. We are using roaming
> profiles on those machines. The share is setup up as to allow different
> profiles depending on the machine used (see below). The %a is used as a
> legacy from times where WinXP and Win7 were used in parallel. The path
> then looks like this:
> 
> /srv/profiles/Vista/user.v6
> 
> Now with this one machine and Windows 1709 Windows is samba thinks it
> should be:
> 
> /srv/profiles/OSX/user.v6
> 
> 
> Which fails after the first login (profile is created at first
> location). Subsequent logins bring up an error message that the profile
> could not be loaded. And on the samba side this is logged:
> 
> canonicalize_connect_path failed for service profiles, path
> /srv/profiles/user/OSX
> 
> Here is the share definition:
> 
> [profiles]
>         csc policy = disable
>         browseable = no
>         writeable = yes
>         path = /srv/profiles/%U/%a
>         guest ok = no
>         create mask = 0700
>         directory mask = 0700
>         comment = Profile Share
> 
> Samba is 4.7.7 from Sernet running on Centos 7.4. If we create the
> folder everything starts working. Just wondering is anybody seen this? I
> find it amusing to let windows 10 run as OSX :-) Nut if ever some people
> upgrade to 1709 an loose their profiles we would have to deal with this.
> 
> Googling found this:
> 
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12425
> 
> 
> but this never went any further. Might be related?
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Christian
> 

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