[Samba] Can't do roaming profiles

Douglas Phillipson Wed, 08 Oct 2003 08:38:37 -0700

I need a little advice on finishing off a Samba PDC. I have Samba 3.0.0RC1 installed and working as a PDC on a Redhat AS 3.0 machine. It authenticates users nicely but the "roaming" profiles don't work. Tailing the samba log, I see the an attempt to access the users ntuser.dat file, which doesn't exist before the first logon, when logging in. The profile directory (/home/profiles/<username> DOES get created by samba when the user logs in. When the user logs off, there is no reference, in the log that ntuser.dat is being written with the users updated profile. In fact the ntuser.dat file is not created on the samba server. If I "touch ntuser.dat" in the profile directory on the samba PDC, then log in on a Win2000 client PC, I get a message saying the ntuser.dat file is not the proper format, so I know the "profiles" share and "logon path" are correct. But the profile will not update on the PDC. My Win2000 is SP2, and I tried SP4 also. I looked on the client PC and the profile is a "roaming" profile. Also the "add user script" doesn't work, I have to add the users by hand (with the same script). Here is my smb.conf file, any help is greatly appreciated...

Regards and thanks for a great program!

Doug P

--------------------------------------------------------------------- # Global parameters [global] workgroup = TESTDOM server string = Samba Server update encrypted = Yes client lanman auth = No client plaintext auth = No log level = 4 log file = /var/log/samba.log socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -s /bin/false -M %u logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U logon drive = H: domain logons = Yes os level = 65 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes dns proxy = No ldap ssl = no preload = homes

[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        path = /home/%S
        read only = No

[printers]
        comment = All Printers
        path = /var/spool/samba
        printable = Yes
        browseable = No

[software]
        path = /home/software
        read only = No

[netlogon]
        path = /home/scripts
        browseable = No

[profiles]
        path = /home/profiles
        read only = No
        writable = yes
        create mask = 0600
        directory mask = 0700
        profile acls = Yes
        browseable = No


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