Re: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7
Hello Damien That's it. I changed logon path and logon home and path in [nt-profile] according your answer and now there are the username.V2 profiles. Further I removed [nt-profile.v2] because it wasn't requested anymore. Thanks, Robert Original-Nachricht Datum: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 20:21:08 +0100 Von: Damien Dye damien.j@googlemail.com An: Rhshshgs Sdasdad r...@gmx.at CC: samba@lists.samba.org Betreff: Re: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7 Also information about the differences and workarounds using profile redirection can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaming_user_profile -- Damien Dye BSC(hon) On 9 April 2010 16:20, Damien Dye damien.j@googlemail.com wrote: Also please define your profiles path like logon path = \\%L\nt-profile\%U Regards -- Damien Dye BSC(hon) On 9 April 2010 16:17, Damien Dye damien.j@googlemail.com wrote: Humm right ok lets see if we can fix it what should happen is that the share should be connected too and there should be a list of profiles. Please define share defined as [nt-profile] comment = Client Profiles path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile read only = No create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 this should create a folder and all the profiles should be listed inside one username and another username.V2 Also what is the profile path assigned to users. Regards -- Damien Dye BSC(hon) On 9 April 2010 15:58, Rhshshgs Sdasdad r...@gmx.at wrote: Hello @Damien I remove nt-profile.v2 and deleted all server profiles in Win7 but I still was logged on using a temporary profile. I found a msg in sambalog like: service [nt-profile.v2] not found @Linda I made the same experince. There was never a profile username.V2 referenced and used. Now I'm fully confused in that topic. I my test environment (1 PDC, 1 WinXP and 1 Win7 virtual machines), I was able to logon with win7 using a server profile with just username. The profile was newly created and empty and samba had defined a [nt-profile.v2] share. The same settings don't work in my production environment. I have the same settings, defined a new user but Win7 is logging on using a temp profile. I set log level to 4, inspected all messages but couldn't find any reason why a temp profile. Does someone have a good tip for me for further investigation or a reason? This there a link available How to setup samba with win 7 clients? regards robert Original-Nachricht Datum: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 16:37:34 +0100 Von: Damien Dye damien.j@googlemail.com An: r...@gmx.at CC: samba@lists.samba.org Betreff: Re: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7 Robert remove the .V2 share and then remove your profiles from vista/win 7 at this reg key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList then all will work as expected. -- Damien Dye BSC(hon) On 4 April 2010 16:15, r...@gmx.at wrote: Hello Christian This what I expected with Win7 clients. But in my case XP and 7 are using the same profile (which shouldn't be), but from different shares. It seems XP is connecting to the profiles via my share [nt-profile] and Win7 via share [nt-profile.v2]. If i comment [nt-profile.v2], Win7 cannot connect to the profile (it starts always with an temporary profile). My username.V2 profiles are still empty. I never saw an logentry pointing to username.V2. Several hits in google answers just to create/copy a username.V2 directory and that's it. Which didn't work for me. [nt-profile.v2] was just a guess due to entries from the samba logs. The only possibility I see, is to define path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u.V2 (or something similar) in [nt-profile.v2] to differentiate between XP and 7. Who is adding the v2 extension? Is it samba or Win7? I'm running Samba 3.4.3. regards Robert Original-Nachricht Datum: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 00:00:40 +0200 (CEST) Von: Christian Rost c...@rocon-it.de An: r...@gmx.at CC: samba@lists.samba.org Betreff: RE: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7 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
Re: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7
Hello @Damien I remove nt-profile.v2 and deleted all server profiles in Win7 but I still was logged on using a temporary profile. I found a msg in sambalog like: service [nt-profile.v2] not found @Linda I made the same experince. There was never a profile username.V2 referenced and used. Now I'm fully confused in that topic. I my test environment (1 PDC, 1 WinXP and 1 Win7 virtual machines), I was able to logon with win7 using a server profile with just username. The profile was newly created and empty and samba had defined a [nt-profile.v2] share. The same settings don't work in my production environment. I have the same settings, defined a new user but Win7 is logging on using a temp profile. I set log level to 4, inspected all messages but couldn't find any reason why a temp profile. Does someone have a good tip for me for further investigation or a reason? This there a link available How to setup samba with win 7 clients? regards robert Original-Nachricht Datum: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 16:37:34 +0100 Von: Damien Dye damien.j@googlemail.com An: r...@gmx.at CC: samba@lists.samba.org Betreff: Re: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7 Robert remove the .V2 share and then remove your profiles from vista/win 7 at this reg key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList then all will work as expected. -- Damien Dye BSC(hon) On 4 April 2010 16:15, r...@gmx.at wrote: Hello Christian This what I expected with Win7 clients. But in my case XP and 7 are using the same profile (which shouldn't be), but from different shares. It seems XP is connecting to the profiles via my share [nt-profile] and Win7 via share [nt-profile.v2]. If i comment [nt-profile.v2], Win7 cannot connect to the profile (it starts always with an temporary profile). My username.V2 profiles are still empty. I never saw an logentry pointing to username.V2. Several hits in google answers just to create/copy a username.V2 directory and that's it. Which didn't work for me. [nt-profile.v2] was just a guess due to entries from the samba logs. The only possibility I see, is to define path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u.V2 (or something similar) in [nt-profile.v2] to differentiate between XP and 7. Who is adding the v2 extension? Is it samba or Win7? I'm running Samba 3.4.3. regards Robert Original-Nachricht Datum: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 00:00:40 +0200 (CEST) Von: Christian Rost c...@rocon-it.de An: r...@gmx.at CC: samba@lists.samba.org Betreff: RE: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7 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.
Re: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7
Hello Christian This what I expected with Win7 clients. But in my case XP and 7 are using the same profile (which shouldn't be), but from different shares. It seems XP is connecting to the profiles via my share [nt-profile] and Win7 via share [nt-profile.v2]. If i comment [nt-profile.v2], Win7 cannot connect to the profile (it starts always with an temporary profile). My username.V2 profiles are still empty. I never saw an logentry pointing to username.V2. Several hits in google answers just to create/copy a username.V2 directory and that's it. Which didn't work for me. [nt-profile.v2] was just a guess due to entries from the samba logs. The only possibility I see, is to define path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u.V2 (or something similar) in [nt-profile.v2] to differentiate between XP and 7. Who is adding the v2 extension? Is it samba or Win7? I'm running Samba 3.4.3. regards Robert Original-Nachricht Datum: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 00:00:40 +0200 (CEST) Von: Christian Rost c...@rocon-it.de An: r...@gmx.at CC: samba@lists.samba.org Betreff: RE: [Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7 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 -- 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
[Samba] question difference of roaming profile between WinXP and Win7
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
[Samba] Is winbindd required for Windows 7 clients
No, because I dind't find any information about that share. This is my profile share: [nt-profile] comment = Client Profiles path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u read only = No create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 I only copied the profiles to username.V2: drwsrwsr-x 32 adminusers 4096 2010-03-10 19:51 admin drwxr-sr-x 30 adminusers 4096 2010-03-08 19:24 admin.V2 Further I set the registy entries according Samba wiki: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7 Original-Nachricht Datum: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:29:06 -0400 Von: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com An: r...@gmx.at CC: samba@lists.samba.org Betreff: Re: [Samba] Is winbindd required for Windows 7 clients On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:56 AM, r...@gmx.at wrote: I'm having problems to et windows 7 clients running in my samba 3.4.2 PDC. They always load temporary profiles. WinXP clients are working perfectly. Is winbindd with an LDAP backend required for windows 7 clients? I didn't configure it because it was not necessary for winXP. Did you create the profiles.v2 share? John -- Sicherer, schneller und einfacher. Die aktuellen Internet-Browser - jetzt kostenlos herunterladen! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser -- GMX DSL: Internet, Telefon und Entertainment für nur 19,99 EUR/mtl.! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- Sicherer, schneller und einfacher. Die aktuellen Internet-Browser - jetzt kostenlos herunterladen! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
[Samba] Fwd: Re: Is winbindd required for Windows 7 clients
Original-Nachricht Datum: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:03:46 +0100 Von: Rhshshgs Sdasdad r...@gmx.at An: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com Betreff: Re: [Samba] Is winbindd required for Windows 7 clients No, because I dind't find any information about that share. This is my profile share: [nt-profile] comment = Client Profiles path = /BUERO/samba/nt-profile/%u read only = No create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 I only copied the profiles to username.V2: drwsrwsr-x 32 adminusers 4096 2010-03-10 19:51 admin drwxr-sr-x 30 adminusers 4096 2010-03-08 19:24 admin.V2 Further I set the registy entries according Samba wiki: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7 Original-Nachricht Datum: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:29:06 -0400 Von: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com An: r...@gmx.at CC: samba@lists.samba.org Betreff: Re: [Samba] Is winbindd required for Windows 7 clients On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:56 AM, r...@gmx.at wrote: I'm having problems to et windows 7 clients running in my samba 3.4.2 PDC. They always load temporary profiles. WinXP clients are working perfectly. Is winbindd with an LDAP backend required for windows 7 clients? I didn't configure it because it was not necessary for winXP. Did you create the profiles.v2 share? John -- Sicherer, schneller und einfacher. Die aktuellen Internet-Browser - jetzt kostenlos herunterladen! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser -- GMX DSL: Internet, Telefon und Entertainment für nur 19,99 EUR/mtl.! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
[Samba] Is winbindd required for Windows 7 clients
I'm having problems to et windows 7 clients running in my samba 3.4.2 PDC. They always load temporary profiles. WinXP clients are working perfectly. Is winbindd with an LDAP backend required for windows 7 clients? I didn't configure it because it was not necessary for winXP. regards robert -- GMX.at - Österreichs FreeMail-Dienst mit über 2 Mio Mitgliedern E-Mail, SMS mehr! Kostenlos: http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atfreemail -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
