[CentOS] samba3x PDC and Win XP (and now Win 7 Client ... off topic)

Thu Aug 2 14:29:36 UTC 2012
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

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

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