Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-06-07 Thread Christian Meier
Marc, thank you for your reply. On Thu, 17 May 2012 18:38:05 + Cain, Marc marc.c...@seattlecolleges.edu wrote: There are many causes for this behavior. In Windows 7 the typical reason is a service or process has locked a resource in the profile and is not releasing it at logoff. Try

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-17 Thread Christian Meier
On Sun, 13 May 2012 09:33:02 -0700 Jorell jore...@fastmail.net wrote: Do you have ACL enabled on the partition? No, there aren't ACLs enabled. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-17 Thread Cain, Marc
On May 14, 2012, at 5:54 AM, Donny Brooks wrote: On Saturday, May 12, 2012 04:48 PM CDT, Christian Meier ch2...@arcor.de wrote: We too have seen this behavior but only on one of our pc's. It is not the server side that gets the rename as someone else mentioned but rather on the PC

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-17 Thread Cain, Marc
On May 12, 2012, at 1:12 PM, steve wrote: On 05/12/2012 09:57 PM, Jorell wrote: On 5/12/2012 8:54 AM, John Drescher wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Christian Meierch2...@arcor.de wrote: Hi, we're using Samba 3.5.6 (Debian). Windows 7 clients often create new roaming profiles

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-17 Thread Ben Metcalfe
Indeed. No need to guess or waste time. Pinpoint the exact file and process / network transaction with pSexec and process monitor. HOWTO: http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2010/01/13/3305263.aspx On Thursday, 17 May 2012, Cain, Marc wrote: On May 12, 2012, at 1:12 PM,

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-14 Thread Donny Brooks
On Saturday, May 12, 2012 04:48 PM CDT, Christian Meier ch2...@arcor.de wrote: On Sat, 12 May 2012 17:47:02 +0200 Christian Meier ch2...@arcor.de wrote: Windows 7 clients often create new roaming profiles for existing users for no identifiable reason. Windows XP isn't affected.

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-14 Thread Ben Metcalfe
There's a thread here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverDS/thread/a9ef96fb-1e20-469c-b1ea-306846f46181 ...that implicates the winlogon process, and indicates a few possible fixes and troubleshooting options. Aside from the ideas mentioned, I've had good results in similar

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-13 Thread Jorell
On 5/12/2012 2:48 PM, Christian Meier wrote: On Sat, 12 May 2012 17:47:02 +0200 Christian Meierch2...@arcor.de wrote: Windows 7 clients often create new roaming profiles for existing users for no identifiable reason. Windows XP isn't affected. Some reasons for this behavior I googled: 1.

[Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-12 Thread Christian Meier
Hi, we're using Samba 3.5.6 (Debian). Windows 7 clients often create new roaming profiles for existing users for no identifiable reason. Windows XP isn't affected. Is this a known problem? - Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-12 Thread John Drescher
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Christian Meier ch2...@arcor.de wrote: Hi, we're using Samba 3.5.6 (Debian). Windows 7 clients often create new roaming profiles for existing users for no identifiable reason. Windows XP isn't affected. Is this a known problem? I have never ever had

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-12 Thread Jorell
On 5/12/2012 8:54 AM, John Drescher wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Christian Meierch2...@arcor.de wrote: Hi, we're using Samba 3.5.6 (Debian). Windows 7 clients often create new roaming profiles for existing users for no identifiable reason. Windows XP isn't affected. Is this a

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-12 Thread steve
On 05/12/2012 09:57 PM, Jorell wrote: On 5/12/2012 8:54 AM, John Drescher wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Christian Meierch2...@arcor.de wrote: Hi, we're using Samba 3.5.6 (Debian). Windows 7 clients often create new roaming profiles for existing users for no identifiable reason.

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-12 Thread Christian Meier
On Sat, 12 May 2012 12:57:13 -0700 Jorell jore...@fastmail.net wrote: When Windows 7 creates the new profile is it creating %USERNAME%.V2? Windows 7 creates %USERNAME%.V2, but I'm not sure about the name of the newly created profiles. I guess .000... is appended. - Chris -- To unsubscribe

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-12 Thread Christian Meier
On Sat, 12 May 2012 22:12:00 +0200 steve st...@steve-ss.com wrote: win7 seems unable to load the profile from the server if the hive at NTUSER.DAT has been changed, e.g. even simply moved from one place to another. We didn't move them. One workaround we use is to put the profile in the

Re: [Samba] Windows 7 often creates new user profiles

2012-05-12 Thread Christian Meier
On Sat, 12 May 2012 17:47:02 +0200 Christian Meier ch2...@arcor.de wrote: Windows 7 clients often create new roaming profiles for existing users for no identifiable reason. Windows XP isn't affected. Some reasons for this behavior I googled: 1. insufficient permissions for profile-folder 2.