[Samba] issue and solution : samba 4.9.4 and win10 1809 : windows could not connect to user profile service aka the home drive letter semi-colon is missing

[Christian Daré]

Hi,
Excuse in advance my poor english.
After installing two new servers debian buster with samba 4.9.4 , one as 
AD ,the second as a fileserver, I was stuck when i tried to connect my 
users.
On a Win10 client , i had the message "windows could not connect to user 
profile service".
The only clue i had was in the event viewer, errors concerning 
svchost.exe_ProfSvc.

After digging internet, i ve found the solution here :
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/91a4ea6f-c1ed-43c7-afa4-3011bd896eed/windows-10-pro-version-1809-trouble-with-active-directory-connection?forum=win10itpronetworking

Before i found the solution, when i created user , i ran samba-tool like 
this :

samba-tool user create dare aze123 --use-username-as-cn 
--profile-path=\\fileserver\profiles\dare\dare*--home-drive=U* 
--home-directory=\\fileserver\dare --userou=OU=UBO_USERS 
--script-path=logonscript.vbs --nis-domain=samba494 
--unix-home=/home/d/dare  --uid=dare --uid-number=202369 
--gid-number=51495 --gecos=Christian Dare  --login-shell=/bin/tcsh 
--username=Administrator --password=MyPassword

This syntax seems good but the semi-colon after U is missing for Windows 
and it blocks the user login.


To fix the issue, i had to add a semi-colon after the home drive letter 
like this :

samba-tool user create dare aze123 --use-username-as-cn 
--profile-path=\\fileserver\profiles\dare\dare *--home-drive=U:* 
--home-directory=\\fileserver\dare --userou=OU=UBO_USERS 
--script-path=logonscript.vbs --nis-domain=samba494 
--unix-home=/home/d/dare  --uid=dare --uid-number=202369 
--gid-number=51495 --gecos=Christian Dare  --login-shell=/bin/tcsh 
--username=Administrator --password=MyPassword

With this syntax, everything works fine as expected.

I think this is a new bug appeared with win10 version 1809 ( With the 
1803 version, i didn t see this issue )

Thanks
Christian D


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