Background
We have 80 clients serving around 1000 users (this is a computerroom for students). Clients are running a Windows XP SP1 fully pathed installation. All users log on to a samba domain (samba 3.0.13 running on a fully pathed Solaris 9 machine). All users use the same profile, a mandatory profile. Group policy settings are set so that the profile should be deleted upon logout. About 3 months ago login problems started to occur for some users, and over the last time the number of users experiencing problems has steadily increased.
Problem
When a problem-user tries to login Windows delivers a message telling the user that it can't remove a file from the (Internet Explorer's) Temporary Internet Cache because this filename is too long. Because of a group policy setting the user is not allowed to login if the profile cannot update it self, hence the users cannot use that computer. This shouldn't be happening cause 1) the profile is supposed to be deleted upon logout and 2) the profile is not supposed to be deleted upon logging in. The problem is bound to the local computer, but it seems that once a user get the problem on one computer it "spreads" to other computers. Deleting the entire local profile on one of the problem-computers resolves the problem (at least temporarily).
Around the time that the problem first turned up we did install some critical patches, and upgraded samba (from 3.0.5 if i remember correctly). I don't know if the problem is related to any of those actions though.
Have anyone else experienced similar problems?
How do I solve the problem? I could schedule removal of all local profiles on all computers, but that is not a solution to the problem but only to the symptoms.
Any help is much appreciated.
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