Odd random roaming profile issues
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From: tms3 on 26 Jul 2010 17:30 When windows login fails, often windows gives a path error. My suspicion is that some rougue data with incompatible perms has gotten into the local users profile. I've seen it happen, but I'll be damned if I can remember the cause. > > --- Original message --- > Subject: [Samba] Odd random roaming profile issues > From: Donny Brooks <dbrooks(a)mdah.state.ms.us> > To: <samba(a)lists.samba.org> > Date: Monday, 26/07/2010 2:05 PM > > 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. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
From: Donny Brooks on 26 Jul 2010 17:30 I will look in the logs of the next one, have one coming in to be redone tomorrow. But it is odd that I can remove their profile from the pc totally and make it pull the server side and it still fails. On 7/26/2010 4:24 PM, tms3(a)tms3.com wrote: > When windows login fails, often windows gives a path error. My > suspicion is that some rougue data with incompatible perms has gotten > into the local users profile. I've seen it happen, but I'll be damned > if I can remember the cause. > > >> --- Original message --- >> *Subject:* [Samba] Odd random roaming profile issues >> *From:* Donny Brooks <dbrooks(a)mdah.state.ms.us> >> *To:* <samba(a)lists.samba.org> >> *Date:* Monday, 26/07/2010 2:05 PM >> >> 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. >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >> instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- 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 26 Jul 2010 17:40 > When windows login fails, often windows gives a path error. My suspicion is > that some rougue data with incompatible perms has gotten into the local > users profile. I've seen it happen, but I'll be damned if I can remember > the cause. > I too have seen that on more than 1 occasion. On my current desktop Win7 placed a link from an elevated install of xp mode. This file was in my profile but I had no permissions to write or delete it so when I logged in my profile could not overwrite the file I had no permissions to write.. I ended up booting a linux livecd to get rid of the bad link in my profile since no method I tried would give me permission to delete it.. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
From: Paul Venzke on 26 Jul 2010 23:10 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. -- PV "We have met the enemy and he is us"; Pogo -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
From: Donny Brooks on 27 Jul 2010 11:20 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. -- 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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