The profile share is necessary for Win2k/WinXP clients, otherwise they won't know where to save the profiles to.
"Jim Shanks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have working 3.0.2a and 2.2.8a domain controllers. The only thing that I see that is significantly different in your conifguration to our configuration is that we have a [profiles] share. [profiles] comment = Personal Profile Folder path = \\%L\%U\profile read only = No profile acls = Yes browseable = No Hope it helps, Jim > I have a linux box running samba configured as my PDC with roaming > profiles. Everything was running great until I upgraded to WinXP > instead of Win2K. Now, when I log out of my XP session, my profile > doesn't get uploaded to the server. The local copy remains in effect > until I reboot. When I log out, the following message gets sent to the > event logger: > > [quote] > Windows has detected that Offline Caching is enabled on the Roaming > Profile share - to avoid potential profile corruption, Offline Caching > must be disabled on shares where roaming user profiles are stored. > > > > For more information, see Help and Support Center at > http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. > [/quote] > > I searched around and found an email which suggested adding the > following to my profiles share to fix this warning message (not sure if > it's supposed to fix my problem, but I figured it was worth a shot): > > csc policy = disabled > share modes = no > > The warning still occurs (yes, I restarted samba and I restarted > windows). > > Here's my smb.conf file with comments stripped > > [global] > workgroup = HOME > netbios name = ERADICATOR > server string = Samba Server %v > printcap name = lpstat > load printers = yes > printing = cups > printer admin = @adm > log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m > max log size = 50 > guest account = guest > security = user > encrypt passwords = yes > smb passwd file = /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd > username map = /etc/samba/smbusers > socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 > interfaces = eth1 > local master = yes > os level = 65 > domain master = yes > preferred master = yes > domain logons = yes > logon path = \\%L\%U\profile > logon home = \\%L\%U > logon drive = I: > add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -c 'Machine > Account' -s /bin/false -M %u > domain admin group = root @wheel > domain guest group = nobody guest @nobody @nogroup @guest > wins support = yes > dns proxy = no > [homes] > comment = Home Directories > browseable = no > writable = yes > profile acls = yes > csc policy = disabled > share modes = no > [netlogon] > comment = Network Logon Service > path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon > guest ok = yes > writable = no > [printers] > comment = All Printers > path = /var/spool/samba > browseable = no > guest ok = yes > writable = no > printable = yes > create mode = 0700 > print command = lpr -P %p %s # using cups own drivers (use generic > PostScript on clients). > lpq command = lpq -P %p > lprm command = cancel %p-%j > [download] > comment = Downloads > path = /usr/local/download > public = yes > writable = no > write list = @adm > > create mode = 0664 > directory mode = 2775 > force create mode = 0660 > force directory mode = 2770 > [music] > comment = Music > path = /home/jeremy/Music > public = yes > writable = no > write list = @adm > > create mode = 0664 > directory mode = 2775 > force create mode = 0660 > force directory mode = 2770 > [movies] > comment = Movies > path = /home/jeremy/Movies > public = yes > writable = no > write list = @adm > > create mode = 0664 > directory mode = 2775 > force create mode = 0660 > force directory mode = 2770 > [root] > comment = Root Directory > path = / > read only = No > [raid0] > comment = RAID 0 > path = /mnt/raid0 > read only = No > > > --- > > As another note, I get the following message in log.<machine name> since > going to samba3... > > [2004/04/05 23:16:16, 0] > rpc_server/srv_util.c:get_domain_user_groups(372) > get_domain_user_groups: primary gid of user [jeremy] is not a Domain > group ! > get_domain_user_groups: You should fix it, NT doesn't like that > [2004/04/05 23:16:20, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(705) > aerith (192.168.0.3) connect to service jeremy initially as user > jeremy (uid=1000, gid=4) (pid 22991) > > --- > > Thanks in advance for any help you have to offer. It is very much > appreciated. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba