Ron Smith wrote:
Hi,
I am having a "logon home" problem. I have a mixture of Win98 and WinXP
machines and regardless which I use to connect to the Samba server, it
will try to map the home drive to what I have set the "logon home = " to.
That's not quite correct, only the WinXP machine will try to use the
value of "logon home" as the home folder.
This is the line .. "logon home = \\%N\profile.%U"
The user is admin
This is the error I see in the syslog from a Win98 Machine:
lab_thinkpad (192.168.30.180) couldn't find service profile.admin
and from a WinXP machine:
genserv-lab4 (192.168.30.184) couldn't find service profile.admin
If I create a folder in the home share called "profile.admin", then
WinXP will map the Home drive to it instead of the parent of
profile.admin. If I remove the logon home line from the smb.conf file,
WinXP will map the Home drive to the home share root correctly, but the
Win98 client will put the profile information in the home share root,
and I want it in a folder called profile.%U under the home share.
I'm replying to my own post ....
I still don't know why a Windows XP machine will try to use the "logon
home" value as it's home folder instead of what's in the /etc/passwd
file on the Samba PDC, but until I find out, I came up with a
work-around. I changed "logon home = \\%N\profile.%U" to "logon home =
\\%N\profile.%a", so that when a user at a Win98 machine logs on, his
profile is stored in the profile.Win95 folder. When that user is at a
WinXP machine and logs on, it looks for a profile.WinXP folder, doesn't
find it and uses the correct home folder instead.
R Smith
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