Hi guys,
I'm experiencing seemingly random problems using roaming profiles with
Samba 3.0.2 on Debian Woody and clients being Win XP Pro and Win2K (all
of them running the latest service packs and critical updates and so
forth).
Sometimes when one of the machines tires to login the server profile
can't be found. The error Windows comes up with is "Network name cannot
be found." and that's all. The event viewer shows no additional
information which name it's trying to access.
In trying to read up on this problem, these "network name not found"
errors indicate that there might be a problem with the share names in
the samba configuration file and actual files and directories on the
harddrive. However, wouldn't that imply this error will show up every
single time I try to logon?
8 out of 10 login attemps work fine, it just fails every now and then.
Sometimes logging out and immediately logging in fixes it. Sometimes it
requires a few attempts before it finally goes through.
This happens from every workstation, so it does not look like an
isolated issue with just one workstation.
Additionally, when the login goes fine without errors and the roaming
profile seems to be loading, it doesn't always seem to be rigth. Say I
made some changes on a machine called Eriond (different background
colour and created some desktop shortcuts), I log out of that machine
and it saves chagnes without errors. Logging on another machine called
Lorien does not always show these latest changes, but it does load some
kind of profile. WHen I log out of Lorien and back in on Eriond, the new
colours and such are gone because Lorien just wrote its version of the
profile to the server.
Does anybody know of a way how I can go about debugging this roaming
profile issue? I've see similar problems reported on this list but no
(working) answers, so I'm wondering if this is just one of those bugs
that eludes everybdoy. Especially seeing I can't reliably reproduce the
problem.
Thanks for any help and insights you guys may be able to share.
--
Gerard Beekmans
/* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */
#
# Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.
#
# $Id: smb.conf,v 1.2.4.6 2002/03/13 18:56:16 peloy Exp $
#
# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
# here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which
# are not shown in this example
#
# Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash)
# is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #
# for commentary and a ; for parts of the config file that you
# may wish to enable
#
# NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command
# "testparm" to check that you have not many any basic syntactic
# errors.
#
#======================= Global Settings =======================
[global]
# Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
pam password change = no
printing = cups
winbind uid = 10000-20000
syslog only = no
dns proxy = no
name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
template shell = /bin/bash
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
short preserve case = yes
wins support = true
max log size = 1000
obey pam restrictions = yes
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
*Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
preserve case = yes
unix password sync = false
server string = %h server (Samba %v)
winbind gid = 10000-20000
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
load printers = yes
#default = homes
netbios name = debian
workgroup = profilestest
os level = 64
preferred master = yes
domain master = yes
local master = yes
security = user
encrypt passwords = true
domain logons = yes
logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
logon drive = U:
logon home = \\%L\homes\%U
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 105 -c 'Machine
account' -s /bin/false -M %u
log level = 0
[profiles]
path = /home/profiles
browsable = no
guest ok = no
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
profile acls = yes
writeable = yes
csc policy = disable
[netlogon]
path = /home/netlogon
read only = yes
guest ok = yes
browsable = yes
[homes]
path = /home
writable = yes
browseable = no
comment = Home Directories
public = no
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
[printers]
path = /tmp
comment = All Printers
create mode = 0700
printable = yes
public = yes
[Public]
comment = Public files area
writable = yes
locking = no
path = /home/public
public = yes
# The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the
# cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain
# an entry like this:
#
# /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0
#
# The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the
#
# If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD
# is mounted on /cdrom
#
# preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom
# postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom
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