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Win XP not saving / uploading (or even downloading) profiles to / from samba PDC

I have a small home network (about 5 computers), with a headless slackware 9.1 server running samba 2.2.8a. My brother's Win98SE PC loaded and was able to browse all shares instantly (even from a different workgroup), and now logs on to the domain without any problems. The family PC, running Win XP Pro, is proving to be a lot more troublesome.

I have finally managed to get it to create a machine account and log on to the samba PDC, and when logged on to the domain with a proper user it can usually browse shares without problems. I cannot, however, get it to do ANYTHING with roaming profiles. It did create folders for the two users I logged on with earlier, and it was giving errors saying that it could not find the roaming profile so it would use the locally cached copy, but then it couldn't find that so it used a temporary profile, but it seems to have stopped creating folders and giving any errors. It was also giving an error on logout, saying that it could not save the profile to the server, but after fixing some other problems it's stopped doing that as well.

I have now manually created \\server\profiles\[username] folders for all users, and I can write into and manually copy profiles into them (except I can't copy the profile for the user which is logged on, and seeing that each user can only access their own profile I can only copy a profile for another user into my profile space, which is somewhat stupid). I have created all the users on the local machine, as network users. It also says in my computer --> properties --> advanced --> user profiles, that two of those users are roaming profiles. The rest are yet to appear, which is also very stupid.

It logs on and off without any errors or messages.

I have installed the signorseal registry update which fixed some of the browsing problems, but I have tried all sorts of things and have googled almost all day, to no avail.

Why is XP not bothering to save roaming profiles?

Thankyou in advance
Simon

I feel your pain, I absolutely hate roaming profiles/xp/2k/samba...

On your XP machine, run gpedit.msc and navigate to "Local Computer Policy" -> "Computer Configuration" -> "Administrative Templates" -> "System" -> "User Profiles"

Change "Do not check for user ownership of Roaming Profile Folders" to "Enabled" and try again ....

thanks, but that hasn't fixed it. It's still not bothering to load or save the profile to the server.

anyone got any other suggestions?

thanks
simon

I have now upgraded to samba 3.0.14a, but that has made little difference to the windows clients (though they seem to be more happy about adding/changing users, which is good). Perhaps someone could check out my smb.conf:

Code:

#======================= Global Settings =====================================

[global]

  workgroup = WILLIAMS

  server string = Williams Server



  hosts allow = 192.168.38. 192.168.10. 127.

#  invalid users = root @wheel



  guest account = pcguest



  log file = /var/log/samba.%m

  max log size = 50



  security = user



  encrypt passwords = yes



  ssl CA certDir = /etc/ssl/certs



  socket options = TCP_NODELAY 



  interfaces = 192.168.38.1/255.255.255.0 192.168.10.1/255.255.255.0



  os level = 140

  domain master = yes 

  preferred master = yes

  domain logons = yes

  logon drive = h:

  logon home = \\%L\%U\.win9x

  logon script = %m.bat

  logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U

  wins support = yes

  dns proxy = yes



#============================ Share Definitions ==============================

[homes]

  comment = Home Directories

  browseable = no

  writable = yes



 [netlogon]

  comment = Network Logon Service

  path = /etc/samba/netlogon

  guest ok = yes

  writable = no

  share modes = no



[profiles]

    path = /etc/samba/profiles

    browseable = yes

    guest ok = yes

    writable = yes

    write list = @family

    create mask = 0755

    directory mask = 0755



[tmp]

  comment = Temporary file space

  path = /home/tmp

  read only = no

  public = yes

  guest ok = yes



[shared]

  comment = Only files which will not be modified please.

  path = /home/shared

  public = yes

  writable = yes

  printable = no

  write list = @family

  create mask = 0774

  guest ok = yes



[zip]

  comment = Iomega zip 100 drive

  path = /mnt/zip

  public = yes

  writable = yes

  write list = @family



[floppy]

  comment = Floppy drive

  path = /mnt/floppy

  public = yes

  writable = yes

  write list = @family

Has anyone else come across this problem with samba? None of my four XP clients will use the roaming profiles.

Thanks
Simon