On 08/02/2012 09:07 AM, Paul R. Ganci wrote: > On 08/01/2012 09:13 AM, Andreas Rogge wrote: >> Am 01.08.2012 09:39, schrieb Paul R. Ganci: >>> anybody have a clue as to why %u is not evaluating to the linux username >>> snichols and is getting treated simply as the string %u? >> You have to use %U instead of %u - this is not a security issue as >> having the wrong UNC path should (and probably will) be caught using ACLs. > Well last night I implemented this change and indeed this fixed the Win > XP problem. The domain users on the client Win XP box can indeed find > their roaming profiles and properly sync them at logon/logoff time. > However when I went to add a domain user to the first Win 7 Professional > box added to the domain, that user only gets a local profile (i.e. a > C:\Users\username instead of C:\Users\username.domainame) despite the > fact the domain user has a roaming profile. I am sure this is a Win 7 > client setup issue. > > The best I have been able to do is copy a local profile from the Win 7 > box for the domain user back to the Samba PDC. I then delete the domain > user's local profile and could get the Win 7 client to read the profile > from the Samba PDC on the domain user's next logon. Basically I can get > the Win 7 client to create a new local profile from the profile found on > the Samba PDC but on logoff the Win 7 client will not sync that profile > with the Samba PDC and on subsequent logons only uses the local stored > profile on the Win 7 box. It is like the Win 7 client policy is to use > local profiles only and it uses the Samba PDC profile only as a default > if the local profile doesn't exist. There is no subsequent profile > synchronization at logon/logoff after the Win 7 local profile gets created. > > 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... Are you adding all of the required registry entries on the Win7 machines to have them join the domain? http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120802/24f6d727/attachment-0005.sig>