[Samba] Need help getting roaming profiles to work
Hi! First, let me apologize for the length of this message. I wanted to include as much relevant info as I could and it got a bit lengthy. For reasons that I won't bother to detail here, I ended up volunteering to upgrade the server at my kids school. It's a small private school with an all-volunteer tech support staff (me!). We currently have about 40 computers serving about 150 people. The server's primary function is a file server/domain controller, but we also use it to serve up the school website. If I can get things working properly, we would also like to use it as a proxy server. The server was running Red Hat 9 with Samba 3.0.10. After a bit of research, I decided to use Ubuntu Server 7.10 along with the latest Samba package available with the distro (3.0.26a) I am a total rookie when it comes to Linux/Samba, so I set up a test system at home to learn how to make it all work. After a couple weeks of reading/trying/testing, I felt like I had a good enough understanding to try the upgrade on the school server. Well, I've been able to get it about 98% correct, but the last little bit is driving me nuts! The problem I'm having is that I can't get the Windows roaming profiles to be saved to the server. I have been searching the net and reading everything I can find related to this problem, but everything I have tried only seems to make things worse. The server is set up as a PDC and users can log in just fine. They can access all the shares I set up just fine. They can read/write to their home share just fine. I've even proven that they can read/write to the location where I want the profiles stored (I've even tried having the system store their profiles in their home directory). When they log in and the Windows OS creates a new profile for them, they can modify the profile in all the normal ways just fine. When they log out, the server does not save that profile. I realize that roaming profiles aren't necessarily the best way to operate a domain, but for now I feel it's the best way for the school to operate. When I learn more about how to work with Samba and Windows profiles, I might change that. Some of the settings were carried over from the previous setup because I was worried about breaking the web server functionality. I'm still learning about all this and I'm not sure which things I can change and which I can't. Thanks for any help you can provide! Bob Bolhuis Some info about the machines/logins: Server name = bcs_linebacker (Is the "_" character in the server name a problem? I've seen references to that being an illegal character.) Machine used for login testing = lab06 Login used to create the log files below = tech Domain name = BC_SCHOOL Configuration settings generated by using testparm: Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_PDC Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions [global] workgroup = BC_SCHOOL server string = BCS Server passdb backend = tdbsam passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *passwd:*password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . unix password sync = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192 add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /samba-clients -g samba-clients -s /bin/false %u logon script = map_network_drives.bat logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U domain logons = Yes os level = 65 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes dns proxy = No idmap uid = 15000-2 idmap gid = 15000-2 admin users = @root, @ntadmin, @tech, tech hosts allow = 192.168.110. profile acls = Yes [netlogon] path = /home/netlogon admin users = tech read only = No guest ok = Yes browseable = No [profiles] path = /data/profiles read only = No create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 hide files = /desktop.ini/outlook*.lnk/*Briefcase* store dos attributes = Yes browseable = No [homes] read only = No browseable = No Below are various log files, some of which may be irrelevant, but I don't know enough about the inner workings to know which of these have significance. log.lab06: [2008/03/27 22:27:18, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033) lab06 (192.168.110.220) connect to service pc06 initially as user tech (uid=0, gid=527) (pid 5347) [2008/03/27 22:27:21, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1230) lab06 (192.168.110.220) closed connection to service pc06 [2008/03/27 22:27:42, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(792) create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators [2008/03/27 22:27:42, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(758) create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users [2008/03/27 22:27:42, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033) lab06 (192.168.110.220) connect to service tech initially as user tech (uid=0, gid=527) (pid 5347) [2008/03/27 22:27:42, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(792) create_built
Re: [Samba] Samba Administration Tool recommendations
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) escreveu: Hi All, I have a project which is to build a customized Linux distribution with a focus on deploying a Samba as Primary Domain Controller. It's pretty much like Trixbox but instead of Asterisk and VOIP, will be focused on Samba. Right now, I am looking for a solution for an administrator to easily manage the service. Of particular importance would be to easily add workstations and set up users for Roaming Profiles. Any recommendations on this? I have already looked at SWAT and Webmin (and I will be including them on the package list). However, I would like a tool that is focused on just Samba as a PDC. The base system I have is Ubuntu Server so it would be great if such a recommendation would be web-based although if a desktop application is what I need, then changing the base system is an option. Thanks in advance, Matt Great idea! As a user, I'd like to suggest you the following features/tools: - Ease to add/manage users and machines; - Ease to manage network workstations (software and hardware inventory/deployment, group policies, etc); - Ease to manage workstations configs (proxy config on browsers, mail settings, logon scripts, enable/disable/manage windows firewall, vnc service and passwords, etc); Regarding machine inventory, have you seen SpiceWorks? I ask because you may have two approaches: 1: a samba focused distro. 2: a network management focused distro. Using samba. The main difficulty on maintaining a samba server is the network/workstations management , which you have to handle with 3rd party tools and scripts (like wpkg), which are not well integrated (because you had to integrate/tweak it yourself). A distro made to address all those issues will be a killer product on the market. Better yet if built on top of Ubuntu server. Sorry if this is not the right place to this. :) Please provide some site or mail list to keep an eye on your progress. Best regards, -- Marcio Merlone -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba Administration Tool recommendations
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote: Hi All, I have a project which is to build a customized Linux distribution with a focus on deploying a Samba as Primary Domain Controller. It's pretty much like Trixbox but instead of Asterisk and VOIP, will be focused on Samba. Right now, I am looking for a solution for an administrator to easily manage the service. Of particular importance would be to easily add workstations and set up users for Roaming Profiles. Have you had a look at SME Server? www.contribs.org This distro is based on Centos (RHEL). It is a real turnkey distro and installs out of the box ready to configure via a web interface. You never need to even look at the commandline. Setup of Samba as a PDC is just a matter of plugging in the workgroup name and checking a box sayin you want SME to be a PDC. Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] SWAT Error on Debian
Hi Christian, On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 07:16:20PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Karolin (and Volker as well), what are the differences between the > SerNet .deb packages and those on main samba sites? the main difference is that we recently decided to drop the FHS patches. Additionally there, there are a lot of smaller differences. > Any sources.list entries I could put my hands on to have a look at? You can download the sources from ftp://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/recent/src/debian. > I (and other Debian packagers) still have in mind the plan to minimize > the gap between .deb packages in Debian (and Ubuntu) and packages > provided by Samba upstream (where I include SerNet work)...so anything > you guys are doing in these packages which we could do in ours would be > good, I thinkand vice-versa, of course. Sounds good. There are a few things to discuss, I think. Maybe we can talk about that on the sambaXP? Cheers, Karolin -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-37-0, fax: +49-551-37-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.SerNet.DE, mailto: Info @ SerNet.DE pgpw7zuP94ipT.pgp Description: PGP signature -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Difference Between ver 3.2.x and ver 3.0.x
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:58:31PM -0700, Greg Zartman wrote: > >I want to Know the Difference between version 3.2 and 3.0.x. > >I know as 3.2.x support GPLv3 But other then that is there any difference ? > > http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/pre/WHATSNEW-3-2-0pre2.txt > > >When can we expect the stable release of version 3.2 as it is in > >pre-release verion ? > > You good at reading tea leaves? That is about as good an answer as you > are going to get from this list is my guess. Well, we are actively working on getting the release out now. There are still several known bugs, and we hope that many people test the pre-releases. Or even better, you can always get the current tree that is about to get the next pre-release from http://repo.or.cz/w/Samba.git?a=snapshot;h=refs/heads/v3-2-stable;sf=tgz The more people test this tree, the better the release will be. Volker pgp2xHaIX5N37.pgp Description: PGP signature -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Samba Administration Tool recommendations
Hi All, I have a project which is to build a customized Linux distribution with a focus on deploying a Samba as Primary Domain Controller. It's pretty much like Trixbox but instead of Asterisk and VOIP, will be focused on Samba. Right now, I am looking for a solution for an administrator to easily manage the service. Of particular importance would be to easily add workstations and set up users for Roaming Profiles. Any recommendations on this? I have already looked at SWAT and Webmin (and I will be including them on the package list). However, I would like a tool that is focused on just Samba as a PDC. The base system I have is Ubuntu Server so it would be great if such a recommendation would be web-based although if a desktop application is what I need, then changing the base system is an option. Thanks in advance, Matt -- Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay with the ancient Tao, Move with the present. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
