On 08/02/2012 08:07 AM, Paul R. Ganci wrote:
Any suggestions to registry/policy settings to get roaming profiles to act as roaming profiles on a Win 7 Professional SP 1 box? I thought I ask here first as I am already on this list. Admittedly this might better belong on a Samba forum but I am guessing somebody out there has already run into this issue. Everything on the web says this should work but alas...
Well after nearly a week of agony I finally have my Win 7 roaming profiles acting like roaming profiles. It tuns out that while trying to get %u (as opposed to %U) to work I also was playing with the Win 7 profiles. Apparently I managed to munge these registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\SidXXX\CacheNextLogon HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\SidXXX\RefCount
For the roaming profile to synchronize properly the CacheNextLogon REG_DWORD had to be set to 0x00000000 and the RefCount REG_DWORD to 0x00000001. After I fixed these to have the proper value my profiles began to synchronize properly with my Samba PDC. I don't even remember what web search found this little tidbit but I guess even a blind squirrel finds a nut every so often.