[Samba] W10, NT domain, profiles that work for some users and not for others...

[Rowland penny]

On 27/06/2019 14:53, Marco Gaiarin via samba wrote:
> As subject say, we are trying to ''integrate'' some W10 machine on a NT
> domain, with samba as PDB/BDC, OpenLDAP backend.
>
> profile share is defined as:
>
>   [profiles]
> 	comment = Network Profiles Share
> 	path = /srv/samba/profiles
> 	read only = No
> 	create mask = 0600
> 	directory mask = 0700
> 	store dos attributes = Yes
> 	browseable = No
> 	csc policy = disable
> 	root preexec = /etc/samba/createprofile "%u"
>
> where clearly '/etc/samba/createprofile' is the script that create the
> various '<loginname>.VX' folders.
> This share worker flawlessy for XP, worked too for Win7, but have some
> strange behaviour for W10.
>
> For some users, W10 complain about 'roaming profile does not work,
> using a temp profile' an save NOTHING on '.V6' folder.
> For another user ('casually' on domain administrator group ;) profile
> work as expected.
>
>
> I've put log level to 5 and tried to find something relevant; the only
> thing i've got is:
>
> [2019/06/27 15:27:59.536724,  5] ../source3/lib/username.c:181(Get_Pwnam_alloc)
>    Finding user profile
> [2019/06/27 15:27:59.536745,  5] ../source3/lib/username.c:120(Get_Pwnam_internals)
>    Trying _Get_Pwnam(), username as lowercase is profile
> [2019/06/27 15:27:59.536763,  5] ../source3/lib/username.c:141(Get_Pwnam_internals)
>    Trying _Get_Pwnam(), username as uppercase is PROFILE
> [2019/06/27 15:27:59.536780,  5] ../source3/lib/username.c:153(Get_Pwnam_internals)
>    Checking combinations of 0 uppercase letters in profile
> [2019/06/27 15:27:59.536796,  5] ../source3/lib/username.c:159(Get_Pwnam_internals)
>    Get_Pwnam_internals didn't find user [profile]!

Try it with '%U' instead of '%u', it seems to be using the service name 
instead of the username.

Rowland