Odd random roaming profile issues
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From: Daniel Deptuła on 27 Jul 2010 15:50 W dniu 2010-07-27 17:11, Donny Brooks pisze: > On 7/26/2010 10:02 PM, Paul Venzke wrote: >> On Mon July 26 2010 16:05, Donny Brooks wrote: >>> We are currently using samba and openLDAP to enable our users to >>> have roaming profiles on our domain network. We have one primary >>> domain controller and 7 "home servers" at the various locations >>> that serve the profiles and such. The problem is that randomly >>> various users are unable to load their profile and windows just >>> gives them a temporary profile. This mostly happens on vista >>> machines but is not limited to that as it has happened on XP also. >>> What is odd is the user can login as themselves on another machine >>> just fine and other users can "usually" log in on the first users >>> pc just fine. We have tried the standard checking log files, >>> remove/reinstall pc into domain/ldap, remove/reinstall user into >>> domain/ldap, etc but nothing seems to work. What we usually end up >>> doing is reinstalling the users OS and programs. I know there has >>> to be a better way to do this. Is there anything I may be missing >>> here? Any pointers are more than welcome. >>> >>> Donny B. >> Donny; >> >> I have found that deleting the registry entry for the user will allow >> them to download the profile from the server. Try deleting the >> local profile and this entry in the registry: >> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\<SID of >> User> >> >> Should you look at this entry, you will see that the CentralProfile is >> set to a temporary profile. You may just need to edit the >> Centralprofile and perhaps delete the local profile rather than >> deleting the entire key. >> >> If you delete the entire SID entry, it will be recreated when the user >> logs-in the next time. > Thanks for that. It appears as though deleting the users registry > entry has fixed at least one instance of this issue. I will continue > testing. Users who use roaming profiles must also properly log off from one machine (wait until all profile settings are saved) before logging in to another one. If they don't do that Windows gives a temporary profile. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
From: John Drescher on 27 Jul 2010 15:50 2010/7/27 Daniel DeptuÅa <daniel.deptula(a)gmail.com>: > W dniu 2010-07-27 17:11, Donny Brooks pisze: >> >> On 7/26/2010 10:02 PM, Paul Venzke wrote: >>> >>> On Mon July 26 2010 16:05, Donny Brooks wrote: >>>> >>>> We are currently using samba and openLDAP to enable our users to >>>> have roaming profiles on our domain network. We have one primary >>>> domain controller and 7 "home servers" at the various locations >>>> that serve the profiles and such. The problem is that randomly >>>> various users are unable to load their profile and windows just >>>> gives them a temporary profile. This mostly happens on vista >>>> machines but is not limited to that as it has happened on XP also. >>>> What is odd is the user can login as themselves on another machine >>>> just fine and other users can "usually" log in on the first users >>>> pc just fine. We have tried the standard checking log files, >>>> remove/reinstall pc into domain/ldap, remove/reinstall user into >>>> domain/ldap, etc but nothing seems to work. What we usually end up >>>> doing is reinstalling the users OS and programs. I know there has >>>> to be a better way to do this. Is there anything I may be missing >>>> here? Any pointers are more than welcome. >>>> >>>> Donny B. >>> >>> Donny; >>> >>> I have found that deleting the registry entry for the user will allow >>> them to download the profile from the server.  Try  deleting the >>> local profile and this entry in the registry: >>> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\<SID of >>> User> >>> >>> Should you look at this entry, you will see that the CentralProfile is >>> set to a temporary profile.  You may just need to edit the >>> Centralprofile and perhaps delete the local profile rather than >>> deleting the entire key. >>> >>> If you delete the entire SID entry, it will be recreated when the user >>> logs-in the next time. >> >> Thanks for that. It appears as though deleting the users registry entry >> has fixed at least one instance of this issue. I will continue testing. > > Users who use roaming profiles must also properly log off from one machine > (wait until all profile settings are saved) before logging in to another > one. If they don't do that Windows gives a temporary profile. > I know this is not always true as I have roaming profiles and I am currently logged into 3 machines with all with normal profiles. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
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