[Samba] Win XP/7 with roaming profiles

Before last week, we have been running Samba 3.0.28 on Ubuntu Hardy as a PDC for Windows XP Pro machines using roaming profiles. This has worked for years with no issues. We migrated to a server running Ubuntu Lucid and Samba 3.4.7 so that we ...

Message posted on the July 20th, 2011 - 2:20 PM ET

[Samba] Samba 4 roaming profiles

Hi everyone This is our first proper test of Samba 4 and we've been up with an opensuse server, an ubuntu client, an opensuse client and a win 7 client. 24 hours without a problem:) 1. We have got as far as deciding where roaming profiles should ...

Message posted on the December 21st, 2011 - 1:00 PM ET

[Samba] how to set samba to not download the whole roaming profiles ?

How to set up roaming profiles that samba doesn't download whole profiles, only necessary files ntuser.ini ntuser.dat eg. end rest of registry settings? I would like to setup profiles running (downloading) fast from server when clients login. ...

Message posted on the July 21st, 2010 - 4:10 AM ET

[Samba] windows 7 roaming profiles

Hi Samba4 DC and win 7 clients. The user profiles are stored in a profiles share: [profiles] path = /home/CACTUS/profiles read only = No This works OK and the user can logon to different boxes with the same profile. The profile folders such as ...

Message posted on the March 27th, 2012 - 9:00 AM ET

[Samba] recommended procedure for mandatory roaming profiles for win7 with samba 3

Hello, I have a PDC and a File (member) server for homes and profiles (Samba 3.4.17). For XP clients I have mandatory profiles with all user shell folders redirected to their respective home share. Now I'm adding win 7 clients to the mix and I ...

Message posted on the December 3rd, 2012 - 6:20 AM ET

[Samba] Unable to re-connect to roaming profile in samba4

I've just configured Samba4 on Ubuntu (4.0.0+dfsg1-1), and can't seem to get roaming profiles working (I followed the guide at https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_AD_DC_HOWTO ) 1. Logons work just fine. 2. DNS is configured and working, running ...

Message posted on the February 7th, 2013 - 10:10 PM ET

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 ...

Message posted on the April 10th, 2010 - 7:40 AM ET

roaming profile windows 7, windows 2003

Hi, We have a network of windows 2003 server and win xp clients using roaming profiles I have upgraded 2 clients to win7 and on both I get a error with the roaming profile. Somehow, Win 7 doesnt pick up the roaming profile. This is the error I ...

Message posted on the April 30th, 2010 - 10:24 AM ET

Win 7 RAID, Server AV, mobile profiles... Questions...

I have a few questions and I don't see any groups that refer to Windows 7, or that are relevant to my roaming profile question, so please excuse the crossposting. I am watch all groups for any replies... We have four users in our home and three ...

Message posted on the August 9th, 2009 - 1:01 PM ET

Strange Win2003 User Roaming Profile

I have a weird situation that I can't figure out. Any suggestions greatly appreciated! Let's call the user=Sue -All Win 2003 servers in the environment, All Win XP clients. All are fully patched through today. -In Sue's Active Directory ...

Message posted on the February 10th, 2009 - 4:19 PM ET

[Samba] Suggestions? Multiple servers/storages one domain

Dies ist eine kryptografisch unterzeichnete Nachricht im MIME-Format. Dies ist eine kryptografisch unterzeichnete Nachricht im MIME-Format. Hi, currently we do have one samba3x-3.5.10-0.109.el5_8 RH EL 5.8 PDC authenticating by our central LDAP ...

Message posted on the July 6th, 2012 - 8:00 AM ET

Desktop icons keep rearranging

Hello, we are using win 2003 server with AD and roaming profiles. Our client pc's are all XP SP2. However, On one computer, the desktop icons keep rearranging from time to time. I have noted the settings from the desktop and they are as following: ...

Message posted on the February 22nd, 2010 - 9:00 AM ET

prevent users saving to desktop

We have a new win server 2008. About 30 odd users in the domain. We would like to prevent users saving to desktop and force them to save to their network drive only. They have roaming profiles. We have tried to select the deny write option on a ...

Message posted on the September 16th, 2009 - 2:59 PM ET

Remote Desktop Freezes on Logon

We have just set up 6 new Lenovo x200 Notebooks running WinXP SP3 and all latest updates. Just attached to a newly set up Win 2008 Server on Active Directory. When we try to access laptop using RD, if the session is logged on already and RD takes ...

Message posted on the February 19th, 2009 - 3:58 AM ET

win roaming profiles