[wplug] Samba PDC not saving profiles

[Jeremey Wise]

Thoughts:

You did not state what OS was connecting to the SMB shares. Older
Versions of Windows require a Netlogon share.

*****
[netlogon]
   comment = Network Logon Service
   path = /usr/local/samba/lib/netlogon
   guest ok = yes
   writable = no
   share modes = no
*****

The issue of the settings not being saved in likely a perms issue with
their profile directory. They have to be able to write temp files which
will then get updated to the "normal.doc" etc... master files for the MS
Office suite. 

******
# Un-comment the following to provide a specific roving profile share
# the default is to use the user's home directory
[Profiles]
    path = /usr/local/samba/profiles
    browseable = no
    guest ok = yes
*****

I find some applications have a realy hard time with correct perms on
temp files and so have reverted to applying a file and directory
creation mask for the problematic shares.


On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:49 -0400, John Harrold wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> We have samba running as a PDC on Debian/Sarge. When people login to the
> computer, it lets them log into the domain just fine, but it doesn't seem
> to be saving their settings. For example say someone opens up powerpoint.
> It asks them for their initials. This is what  powerpoint is supposed to do
> the first time. Except it does this everytime. Another example is how
> things are viewed in the explorer. Say you set your preferences to show
> hidden files and hit ok. When I go back to the preferences they are not
> saved. 
> 
> My smb conf file looks like:
> [global]
>   security            = user
>   workgroup           = MY_DOMAIN
>   server string       = Some string
>   encrypt passwords   = true
>   update encrypted    = Yes
>   log file            = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>   max log size        = 50
>   dns proxy           = No
>   hosts allow         = .pg 192.168.0.
>   unix password sync  = Yes
> 
>   domain logons       = yes
>   domain master       = true
>   logon path          = \\server\%u\.windows_profile
>   logon drive         = H:
>   logon home          = \\server\%u\.windows_profile
> 
> 
> When I login to the domain on the windows machine I get the following in my
> samba logs:
> 
> [2004/10/07 15:37:44, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(800)
>   troll (192.168.0.188) couldn't find service netlogon
> 
> And the .windows_profile directory is created in my home directory. Am I simply
> under the wrong impression with respect to the meaning of "roaming profile"?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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