[Samba] roaming user profiles do not transfer all settings

this may sound like a basic question but i'm not entirely sure how
roaming profiles work so i'm not sure if i have it working properly. i
created a local user account on a client machine and then joined that
machine to the domain. i then logged in as domain administrator and
copied the user profile from the local machine to the server. if i
login with this user account (now the domain account) from another
machine, i can see the files that are supposed to be there but
everything else like the wallpaper, shortcuts, and windows styles are
not correct.... is roaming profiles supposed to work like this??? or
are you supposed to have the EXACT user settings no matter what
machine you log onto???
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On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Leandro Tracchia <ltracchia@gmail.com> wrote:
> this may sound like a basic question but i'm not entirely sure how
> roaming profiles work so i'm not sure if i have it working properly. i
> created a local user account on a client machine and then joined that
> machine to the domain. i then logged in as domain administrator and
> copied the user profile from the local machine to the server. if i
> login with this user account (now the domain account) from another
> machine, i can see the files that are supposed to be there but
> everything else like the wallpaper, shortcuts, and windows styles are
> not correct....
How are they not correct?

>is roaming profiles supposed to work like this??? or
> are you supposed to have the EXACT user settings no matter what
> machine you log onto???
> --
Probably. If your wallpaper exists on the local machine and not in
your profile then logging on to some other machine with that roaming
profile will not get your wallpaper. Also shortcuts will contain the
machine that created them so if you install an app on machine 1 and it
puts a shortcut in your profile that shortcut when clicked on machine
2 will still want to run the application from machine 1.

John

John
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Leandro Tracchia wrote:
> this may sound like a basic question but i'm not entirely sure how
> roaming profiles work so i'm not sure if i have it working properly. i
> created a local user account on a client machine and then joined that
> machine to the domain. i then logged in as domain administrator and
> copied the user profile from the local machine to the server. if i
> login with this user account (now the domain account) from another
> machine, i can see the files that are supposed to be there but
> everything else like the wallpaper, shortcuts, and windows styles are
> not correct.... is roaming profiles supposed to work like this??? or
> are you supposed to have the EXACT user settings no matter what
> machine you log onto???
>

There is no need to copy the profile to the server. This happens
automatically IF you've done the configuration correctly. I believe all
you need is to have something like this in your smb.conf:

[profiles]
path = /home/samba/profiles
read only = No

where path is the parent directory for your profiles.

I think John Drescher may be incorrect in his description of shortcuts.
The shortcuts are normally relative to the machine, so you need to
install the application in the same path on all the machines you wish to
run it on. If the application hasn't been installed on a machine, you
can't run it.
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On Mon, 09 Jun 2008, Gary Dale might have said:

> Leandro Tracchia wrote:
> >this may sound like a basic question but i'm not entirely sure how
> >roaming profiles work so i'm not sure if i have it working properly. i
> >created a local user account on a client machine and then joined that
> >machine to the domain. i then logged in as domain administrator and
> >copied the user profile from the local machine to the server. if i
> >login with this user account (now the domain account) from another
> >machine, i can see the files that are supposed to be there but
> >everything else like the wallpaper, shortcuts, and windows styles are
> >not correct.... is roaming profiles supposed to work like this??? or
> >are you supposed to have the EXACT user settings no matter what
> >machine you log onto???
> >
>
> There is no need to copy the profile to the server. This happens
> automatically IF you've done the configuration correctly. I believe all
> you need is to have something like this in your smb.conf:
>
> [profiles]
> path = /home/samba/profiles
> read only = No
>
> where path is the parent directory for your profiles.
>
> I think John Drescher may be incorrect in his description of shortcuts.
> The shortcuts are normally relative to the machine, so you need to
> install the application in the same path on all the machines you wish to
> run it on. If the application hasn't been installed on a machine, you
> can't run it.
> --

My current settings for profiles are:

[profiles]
comment = Roaming User Profiles
path = /etc/samba/profiles
browseable = Yes
writable = Yes
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
hide files = /DESKTOP.INI/Desktop.ini/desktop.ini/ntuser.ini/NTUSER.*/Thumbs.db/
#store dos attributes = Yes
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
#printable = no
csc policy = disable

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sounds like you didn't copy the user's NTUSER.DAT. how did you copy the
profile? drag and drop from c:\documents and settings\username to
\\server\profiles\username or did you go to my computer properties,
advanced, users, and change their profile to roaming and copy their
profile with the copy button there to \\servers\profiles\username?

Leandro Tracchia wrote:
> this may sound like a basic question but i'm not entirely sure how
> roaming profiles work so i'm not sure if i have it working properly. i
> created a local user account on a client machine and then joined that
> machine to the domain. i then logged in as domain administrator and
> copied the user profile from the local machine to the server. if i
> login with this user account (now the domain account) from another
> machine, i can see the files that are supposed to be there but
> everything else like the wallpaper, shortcuts, and windows styles are
> not correct.... is roaming profiles supposed to work like this??? or
> are you supposed to have the EXACT user settings no matter what
> machine you log onto???
>

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i copied the profile using the moveuser command
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

i suspect the profile may not have been copied correctly.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Adam Williams <awilliam@mdah.state.ms.us>
wrote:

> sounds like you didn't copy the user's NTUSER.DAT. how did you copy the
> profile? drag and drop from c:\documents and settings\username to
> \\server\profiles\username or did you go to my computer properties,
> advanced, users, and change their profile to roaming and copy their profile
> with the copy button there to \\servers\profiles\username?
>
>
> Leandro Tracchia wrote:
>
>> this may sound like a basic question but i'm not entirely sure how
>> roaming profiles work so i'm not sure if i have it working properly. i
>> created a local user account on a client machine and then joined that
>> machine to the domain. i then logged in as domain administrator and
>> copied the user profile from the local machine to the server. if i
>> login with this user account (now the domain account) from another
>> machine, i can see the files that are supposed to be there but
>> everything else like the wallpaper, shortcuts, and windows styles are
>> not correct.... is roaming profiles supposed to work like this??? or
>> are you supposed to have the EXACT user settings no matter what
>> machine you log onto???
>>
>>
>
>
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they are not correct because the wallpaper, shortcuts, and windows styles on
("client2") are different from the profile on the machine ("client1") that i
joined the domain with. the profile on "client1" is the profile that should
have been copied to the server and also that profile is roaming and should
appear on all other machines. it is my understanding that the user should be
able to log on to any machine and see his EXACT settings every time.


On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:48 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Leandro Tracchia <ltracchia@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > this may sound like a basic question but i'm not entirely sure how
> > roaming profiles work so i'm not sure if i have it working properly. i
> > created a local user account on a client machine and then joined that
> > machine to the domain. i then logged in as domain administrator and
> > copied the user profile from the local machine to the server. if i
> > login with this user account (now the domain account) from another
> > machine, i can see the files that are supposed to be there but
> > everything else like the wallpaper, shortcuts, and windows styles are
> > not correct....
> How are they not correct?
>
> >is roaming profiles supposed to work like this??? or
> > are you supposed to have the EXACT user settings no matter what
> > machine you log onto???
> > --
> Probably. If your wallpaper exists on the local machine and not in
> your profile then logging on to some other machine with that roaming
> profile will not get your wallpaper. Also shortcuts will contain the
> machine that created them so if you install an app on machine 1 and it
> puts a shortcut in your profile that shortcut when clicked on machine
> 2 will still want to run the application from machine 1.
>
> John
>
> John
>
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The safe thing to do so that you can be sure of the behavior would be setup
a test user on the PDC (clean account, do not copy a profile or anything of
the like), login with the new user account to a windows workstation that is
a member of the domain and configure his profile (change the wallpaper, the
fonts, whatever) and log out and then log in from workstation #2 and see if
the changes persist. If this works, then you know the problems or unexpected
behavior you're currently experiencing is a result of the existing profile
you copied and are testing with.

Note, you can (and probably will) experience problems when using different
versions of windows with the same profile.



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i will test it as you recommend... but i do need to be able to migrate
existing user profiles when it is time to move my network to the samba
domain.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:58 PM, J.P. Trosclair <jptrosclair@judelawfirm.com>
wrote:

>
>
> The safe thing to do so that you can be sure of the behavior would be setup
> a test user on the PDC (clean account, do not copy a profile or anything of
> the like), login with the new user account to a windows workstation that is
> a member of the domain and configure his profile (change the wallpaper, the
> fonts, whatever) and log out and then log in from workstation #2 and see if
> the changes persist. If this works, then you know the problems or
> unexpected
> behavior you're currently experiencing is a result of the existing profile
> you copied and are testing with.
>
> Note, you can (and probably will) experience problems when using different
> versions of windows with the same profile.
>
>
>
>
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i've also copied the profile through my computer properties. still i don't
get the same profiles when logging in from different computers.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Adam Williams <awilliam@mdah.state.ms.us>
wrote:

> sounds like you didn't copy the user's NTUSER.DAT. how did you copy the
> profile? drag and drop from c:\documents and settings\username to
> \\server\profiles\username or did you go to my computer properties,
> advanced, users, and change their profile to roaming and copy their profile
> with the copy button there to \\servers\profiles\username?
>
>
> Leandro Tracchia wrote:
>
>> this may sound like a basic question but i'm not entirely sure how
>> roaming profiles work so i'm not sure if i have it working properly. i
>> created a local user account on a client machine and then joined that
>> machine to the domain. i then logged in as domain administrator and
>> copied the user profile from the local machine to the server. if i
>> login with this user account (now the domain account) from another
>> machine, i can see the files that are supposed to be there but
>> everything else like the wallpaper, shortcuts, and windows styles are
>> not correct.... is roaming profiles supposed to work like this??? or
>> are you supposed to have the EXACT user settings no matter what
>> machine you log onto???
>>
>>
>
>
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