Does anybody have any insight into what could be causing this strange problem? I have Samba 3.02 (sorry, can't upgrade right now). My Linux box is running Mandrake 10 Official. I have Samba configured as a PDC.
I can successfully add machines to my Domain -- and log on as ANY user from ANY machine. However on a SINGLE MACHINE, when I log on as USER_1 and access that user's roaming profile, if I then log off and immediately try to log on again (AS USER_1 or ANOTHER USER), Windows XP gives me a message saying that it can't access the user's roaming profile and that maybe there's a problem with permissions. If I just wait about 3 or 4 minutes, however, I can log on again as any user and access the roaming profile. Looking at the "profile" directory on my Linux Box, and can see that the roaming profile is updated when I succeed in accessing the roaming profile. When I get that message, Windows just uses the last information that was stored locally on the computer. The cause doesn' t seem to be a problem with permissions. As I log on and log off, I am watching the permissions on the "profiles" directory and they are not being altered. And I don't see anything in /var/log/samba/[machine_name].log that looks suspicious, except an occasional message: "[machine_name] (192.168.1.101) couldn't find service [user who was trying to log on]". BTW, I have my profiles directory in the following path: /home/bigboss/profile/ The home directory on this machine is actually on its own very large partition -- so it's a good place to put the profiles. Whereas the root partition "/" has much less space -- certainly not adequate for 200 users with roaming profiles. I tried putting the profiles in /home/profile -- but every time I rebooted the permissions of the permissions of the "profile" directory would get changed to read-only for the group that needs to access the directory. Any ideas or solutions? Andy Liebman -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
