2010/7/27 Daniel Deptuła <[email protected]>: > W dniu 2010-07-27 17:11, Donny Brooks pisze: >> >> On 7/26/2010 10:02 PM, Paul Venzke wrote: >>> >>> On Mon July 26 2010 16:05, Donny Brooks wrote: >>>> >>>> We are currently using samba and openLDAP to enable our users to >>>> have roaming profiles on our domain network. We have one primary >>>> domain controller and 7 "home servers" at the various locations >>>> that serve the profiles and such. The problem is that randomly >>>> various users are unable to load their profile and windows just >>>> gives them a temporary profile. This mostly happens on vista >>>> machines but is not limited to that as it has happened on XP also. >>>> What is odd is the user can login as themselves on another machine >>>> just fine and other users can "usually" log in on the first users >>>> pc just fine. We have tried the standard checking log files, >>>> remove/reinstall pc into domain/ldap, remove/reinstall user into >>>> domain/ldap, etc but nothing seems to work. What we usually end up >>>> doing is reinstalling the users OS and programs. I know there has >>>> to be a better way to do this. Is there anything I may be missing >>>> here? Any pointers are more than welcome. >>>> >>>> Donny B. >>> >>> Donny; >>> >>> I have found that deleting the registry entry for the user will allow >>> them to download the profile from the server. Try deleting the >>> local profile and this entry in the registry: >>> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\<SID of >>> User> >>> >>> Should you look at this entry, you will see that the CentralProfile is >>> set to a temporary profile. You may just need to edit the >>> Centralprofile and perhaps delete the local profile rather than >>> deleting the entire key. >>> >>> If you delete the entire SID entry, it will be recreated when the user >>> logs-in the next time. >> >> Thanks for that. It appears as though deleting the users registry entry >> has fixed at least one instance of this issue. I will continue testing. > > Users who use roaming profiles must also properly log off from one machine > (wait until all profile settings are saved) before logging in to another > one. If they don't do that Windows gives a temporary profile. >
I know this is not always true as I have roaming profiles and I am currently logged into 3 machines with all with normal profiles. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
