Re: [Samba] speed of samba vs Windows

2012-06-28 Thread Cain, Marc
On Jun 28, 2012, at 7:02 AM, Todor Fassl wrote: Is there any reason to believe that a samba server would be slower when serving up roaming profiles than a real Windows server? I know roaming profiles are slow by nature and that there are things you can do to help like configuring ffolder

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-17 Thread Cain, Marc
On May 14, 2012, at 5:54 AM, Donny Brooks wrote: On Saturday, May 12, 2012 04:48 PM CDT, Christian Meier ch2...@arcor.de wrote: We too have seen this behavior but only on one of our pc's. It is not the server side that gets the rename as someone else mentioned but rather on the PC

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-17 Thread Cain, Marc
On May 12, 2012, at 1:12 PM, steve wrote: On 05/12/2012 09:57 PM, Jorell wrote: On 5/12/2012 8:54 AM, John Drescher wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Christian Meierch2...@arcor.de wrote: Hi, we're using Samba 3.5.6 (Debian). Windows 7 clients often create new roaming profiles

Re: [Samba] windows 7 roaming profiles

2012-03-30 Thread Cain, Marc
Hi I'm coming to back to Windows after a 12 year absence so please forgive my questions. Just coming back to my original post for a moment, e.g. I create a file and store it on my desktop. roaming profile It is stored locally until I log off whereupon it is synced to the server.

Re: [Samba] Samba PDC with Windows 7 support request

2012-02-16 Thread Cain, Marc
Have you tried these settings (posted here about a year ago)? When the following local GPO is left in its default setting Samba domain logons are delayed for 30 seconds: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\User Profiles\Set maximum wait time for the network if the user has

Re: [Samba] Problem by using Samba 3 with Default User.v2 Profiles / Windows 7

2010-12-15 Thread Cain, Marc
On Dec 15, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Benjamin Dombrowsky wrote: Hello Samba-Team, I've a big problem by using Windows 7 and default user profiles. I make a default user profile, named: Default User.v The correct path is NETLOGON\Default User.v2 see:

Re: [Samba] Default Profile for Windows 7

2010-11-09 Thread Cain, Marc
Should be: Default User.v2 See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973289 On Nov 9, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Marcio Merlone wrote: Hi all, I have just deployed a samba 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2 so I can support Windows 7 on my network. I have a ProfileSambaDefault folder on my netlogon share

[Samba] Fwd: Windows 7 problems

2010-11-09 Thread Cain, Marc
On Nov 9, 2010, at 7:29 AM, henri wrote: Hi, I have upgraded to Samba 3.5.6 for Windows 7 Pro compatibility. I am in a test phase to evaluate the behavior of Windows 7 in a Samba PDC environment. I have one Samba server as a PDC with tdbsam backend (no LDAP at all), and I applied the

Re: [Samba] Pittfals Windows 7 and samba 3.3.8 (centos 5.5), LDAP BE - joining domain

2010-07-21 Thread Cain, Marc
Hi Gotz, See the following link for proper Windows 7 settings: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7 Marc On Jul 21, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote: Hi, recently I got my samba/ldap/pdc setup up and running with xp clients. Server: centos 5.5,

Re: [Samba] windows 7 unable to join domain

2010-06-15 Thread Cain, Marc
On Jun 15, 2010, at 1:42 AM, Ciernik Tomas wrote: Hi, I'm currently running Samba3x-3.3.8-0.51 on CentOS 5.5. I currently have many Windows XP clients associated with the domain and behaving correctly. However, I am unable to join a Windows 7 PC. I receive The specified network name is

Re: [Samba] fixed delay logging onto Samba3.3 from Vista Business

2010-05-27 Thread Cain, Marc
Repost: samba@lists.samba.org On May 27, 2010, at 10:41 AM, John Drescher wrote: I went through the event logs, and there was one interesting entry. Also at 10:05:53 in the system log there was an event 7001 (1101), User Logon Notification for Customer Experience Improvement Program. Have to

Re: [Samba] Is samba right for me?

2010-03-17 Thread Cain, Marc
As a career move I don't see any reason why you shouldn't / couldn't learn both. Couldn't hurt, would increase your knowledge base and extend your resume/options. On Mar 17, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Chris wrote: I am currently a college student looking for ways to prepare myself for any Server

Re: [Samba] deploy policies for win7 ?

2010-02-26 Thread Cain, Marc
We deliver Local GPOs by copying from client to server share then back to local System32 folder on logon, applying a gpupdate /force after the copy. This works pretty well with both WinXP and Windows 7 for any policies that are applied immediately and that don't require a restart. Have not yet

Re: [Samba] Problem with Windows 7 and roaming profiles

2010-02-22 Thread Cain, Marc
Hi Andre, The behavior you are seeing is particularly indicative of Windows mandatory profile behaviors where the user's ntuser.dat has been renamed on the samba profile share to ntuser.man. I'm not saying this is the case but it sure sounds like it. Regards, Marc Cain On Feb 22, 2010, at

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 and Samba - still unsolved ! -- Re: Problem with Win 7 and Samba 3.3.10 PDC (Trust Relationship Between Workstation and Domain Failed)

2010-02-17 Thread Cain, Marc
Following these directions work. I recommend the latest version of Samba 3.4.x. Be sure to read the section on Windows registry entries. http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7 On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:39 AM, Denis BUCHER wrote: Dear all, I'm still without solution to make Windows 7 work

[Samba] Windows 7 domain logon timeouts was Re: Domain login delays w2k8 R2

2010-02-04 Thread Cain, Marc
Samba 3.4.3 (ldap backend) Windows 7 Enterprise I've experienced the identical symptoms with Windows 7 ENT and found this workaround. When the following local GPO is left in its default setting Samba domain logons are delayed for 30 seconds: Computer Configuration\Administrative