Hi, IMHO both profiles can stay within the same share, so you don't need a separate .v2 share. It's the same with Windows 2003 Server and a mixture of XP/ Vista/Seven Clients.
What you need to keep in mind is that Windows XP profiles are not compatible with Vista/Seven profiles - hence the ".v2" suffix and they're completely different profiles. When you're logging into Vista/Seven for the first time, your exisitng pre-Vista profile will be converted and will be renamed to <username>.v2. Each time you're logging into Vista/ Seven the "<username>.v2" profile will be updated, and each time you're logging into XP your "<username>" profile will be updated. Cheers, Christian =========================================================== Dipl.-Ing. Christian Rost roCon - Informationstechnologie Glatzer Weg 4 44534 Lünen fon: +49 (0) 2306 910 658 fax: +49 (0) 2306 910 664 url: http://www.rocon-it.de --------r...@gmx.at wrote-------- Subject: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7 Date: 03.04.2010 17:02 >Hello >I want to add Win7 machine to my Samba PDC with WinXP clients. Google >tells me I have to add a .V2 to my profiles. The samba log ask about a .v2 >share. >Can someone explain me the difference of the v2 extension at the profile >names and the roaming profile share? >Following my settings: > >smb.conf: >[global] > logon path = \\%L\nt-profile > logon home = \\%L\nt-profile > >[nt-profile] > comment = Client Profiles > path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u > read only = No > create mask = 0600 > directory mask = 0700 > >[nt-profile.v2] > comment = Client Profiles > path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u > read only = No > create mask = 0600 > directory mask = 0700 > > >ls -l /BUERO/samba/nt-profile >drwsrwsr-x 24 kira users 4096 2010-04-03 16:16 kira >drwxr-sr-x 2 kira users 4096 2010-04-02 18:59 kira.V2 > >These are 2 empty profiles. >I logged on to user kira with an XP client, set the background colour to >green and logged of. Profile kira was filled with data. Now I logged on to >user kira with an Win7 client, the background was black. I set the >background to yellow and logged of. The profile kira.V2 is still empty. >Finally I logged on to kira with XP and the background was yellow. So Win7 >and XP are using the same profile, which should be if I understand "mr. >google" right. I thought I just had to copy the roaming profiles to a >profile with extension .V2. > >I found following in the samba log during Win7 logon: > : >get_referred_path: |nt-profile.V2| in dfs path \testserver\nt-profile.V2 >is not a dfs root. > : >Connect path is '/BUERO/samba/nt-profile/kira' for service [nt-profile.v2] > : >connect to service nt-profile.v2 initially as user kira (uid=524, gid=100) >(pid 12087) > : >reduce_name [.] [/BUERO/samba/nt-profile/kira] > : > >Further, there is a reference to nt-profile.V2 (uppercase V2) and next a >connect to nt-profile.v2 (lowercase v2). What is the difference? Finally, >the profile kira is used and not kira.V2. Why? > >Can someone explain me the correct setup of samba for Win7 clients? > >regards robert >-- >Sicherer, schneller und einfacher. Die aktuellen Internet-Browser - >jetzt kostenlos herunterladen! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba