Re: [Samba] weird Windows profile creation
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Christopher Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems weird. On 75% of my machines, it creates accounts as: c:\documents and settings\username on 25% of the machines, it creates them as: c:\docments and settings\username.DOMAINNAME These are fresh machines, so it's unclear to me where this behavior stems from. We're not using roaming profiles. Does anyone have any idea as to why this happens? When I had a Samba PDC in use with roaming profiles we had the clients set to delete the roaming profiles at logoff. Naturally MS Windows didn't always delete the locally cached copy of the roaming profile in spite of being told to do so. On subsequent logins the roaming profile would be copied to c:\documents and settings\username.DOMAINNAME - which would break some applications (Thunderbird, Firefox) that expected their settings to be under c:\documents and settings\username. Wasn't a Samba issue in our case b/c it was the client machine's failure to delete the local coy of the roaming profile that was the source of the issue. -Bob -- *** Bob Martel,System Administrator I met someone who looks a lot like you Levin College of Urban Affairs She does the things you do Cleveland State University But she is an IBM (216) 687-2214 [EMAIL PROTECTED]-Jeff Lynne *** -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] weird Windows profile creation
It seems weird. On 75% of my machines, it creates accounts as: c:\documents and settings\username on 25% of the machines, it creates them as: c:\docments and settings\username.DOMAINNAME These are fresh machines, so it's unclear to me where this behavior stems from. We're not using roaming profiles. Does anyone have any idea as to why this happens? thanks Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] weird Windows profile creation
On 7/28/2008, Christopher Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: on 25% of the machines, it creates them as: c:\docments and settings\username.DOMAINNAME It only does this if there is already a LOCAL user account in use with that same username. This is well documented behavior. -- Best regards, Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] weird Windows profile creation
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Christopher Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems weird. On 75% of my machines, it creates accounts as: c:\documents and settings\username on 25% of the machines, it creates them as: c:\docments and settings\username.DOMAINNAME These are fresh machines, so it's unclear to me where this behavior stems from. We're not using roaming profiles. Does anyone have any idea as to why this happens? Do any of these users have local windows accounts on the new machines? John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] weird Windows profile creation
BTW, this happens in a Windows (2000 an up, at least, afaik...) server domain as well. Not related to Samba, basically. Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Perry Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:15 AM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] weird Windows profile creation It seems weird. On 75% of my machines, it creates accounts as: c:\documents and settings\username on 25% of the machines, it creates them as: c:\docments and settings\username.DOMAINNAME These are fresh machines, so it's unclear to me where this behavior stems from. We're not using roaming profiles. Does anyone have any idea as to why this happens? thanks Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] weird Windows profile creation
If the username already exists on the machine as a local account, and then you join the domain and logon with the same username, it creates this. That is how it distinguishes the two different (in it's opinion) usernames. Make sure you have no local accounts (using usernames you want to use) on the machine before you join the domain. HTH, Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Perry Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:15 AM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] weird Windows profile creation It seems weird. On 75% of my machines, it creates accounts as: c:\documents and settings\username on 25% of the machines, it creates them as: c:\docments and settings\username.DOMAINNAME These are fresh machines, so it's unclear to me where this behavior stems from. We're not using roaming profiles. Does anyone have any idea as to why this happens? thanks Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
