[Samba] Problem with moving PDC to new server

All,
I am in the process of moving a PDC to a new server, the config, *.tdb
files, linux user account files (/etc/passwd,shadow,group) and /home
have all been moved successfully, shares and authentication is working
great.

Issue:
When I login and the system loads my roaming profile all my "recent
Programs" list are gone, I cannot add more programs to this list in the
start menu (no error just won't show) and it appears other windows
settings are not getting properly loaded either (i.e. I have a gray
start bar instead of my normal green/blue bar)

Background on the move:
Old Server:
Ubuntu 6.06(i386) running Samba 3.0.22

New Server:
Centos 5.2(i386) running Samba 3.0.28

Clients:
All Windows XP Pro previously part of the Domain

Any one have any advice for solving this issue?

Aaron
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I tried a similar trick with the added step of changing from a tdbsam
backend to ldap and found the same windows profile issue. Strangely if
the user was a local or domain admin things were ok. I found the only
work around at the time was backup the users profile before deleting it
and letting windows create a new one and transferring anything important
back from the old profile.

In my case the retiring server was CentOS 4.5 and the new one CentOS 5.2

Cheers

Kevin

Aaron Johnson wrote:
> All,
> I am in the process of moving a PDC to a new server, the config, *.tdb
> files, linux user account files (/etc/passwd,shadow,group) and /home
> have all been moved successfully, shares and authentication is working
> great.
>
> Issue:
> When I login and the system loads my roaming profile all my "recent
> Programs" list are gone, I cannot add more programs to this list in the
> start menu (no error just won't show) and it appears other windows
> settings are not getting properly loaded either (i.e. I have a gray
> start bar instead of my normal green/blue bar)
>
> Background on the move:
> Old Server:
> Ubuntu 6.06(i386) running Samba 3.0.22
>
> New Server:
> Centos 5.2(i386) running Samba 3.0.28
>
> Clients:
> All Windows XP Pro previously part of the Domain
>
> Any one have any advice for solving this issue?
>
> Aaron

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First of all, check the domain SID on the new server. It should match the
domain SID which was used on the old server. Also make sure, that
permissions are correctly set on profile directories.

To display the domain SID, type the following on the PDC:

net getlocalsid

To set the domain SID use "net setlocalsid <SID>"

Permissions of profile directories should be set like this:

- User ownership: <the usename which the profiles belongs to>
- Group ownership: the primary group of the user
- Permission for the profile directory: 1777
- Permission for the profile directory of a user: 0700 or 1700 (not sure
about it)

I hope, I could help you.

Regards
Gergely Kiss


2008/7/16 Aaron Johnson <aaronjohnson@ajserver.com>:

> All,
> I am in the process of moving a PDC to a new server, the config, *.tdb
> files, linux user account files (/etc/passwd,shadow,group) and /home have
> all been moved successfully, shares and authentication is working great.
>
> Issue:
> When I login and the system loads my roaming profile all my "recent
> Programs" list are gone, I cannot add more programs to this list in the
> start menu (no error just won't show) and it appears other windows settings
> are not getting properly loaded either (i.e. I have a gray start bar instead
> of my normal green/blue bar)
>
> Background on the move:
> Old Server:
> Ubuntu 6.06(i386) running Samba 3.0.22
>
> New Server:
> Centos 5.2(i386) running Samba 3.0.28
>
> Clients:
> All Windows XP Pro previously part of the Domain
>
> Any one have any advice for solving this issue?
>
> Aaron
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the domain SID must be the same.
is the domain SID are identic between the old and new server.

net getlocalsid domain


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samba-bounces+stephane.purnelle=corman.be@lists.samba.or g a écrit sur
16/07/2008 16:06:26 :

> I tried a similar trick with the added step of changing from a tdbsam
> backend to ldap and found the same windows profile issue. Strangely if
> the user was a local or domain admin things were ok. I found the only
> work around at the time was backup the users profile before deleting it
> and letting windows create a new one and transferring anything important

> back from the old profile.
>
> In my case the retiring server was CentOS 4.5 and the new one CentOS 5.2
>
> Cheers
>
> Kevin
>
> Aaron Johnson wrote:
> > All,
> > I am in the process of moving a PDC to a new server, the config, *.tdb

> > files, linux user account files (/etc/passwd,shadow,group) and /home
> > have all been moved successfully, shares and authentication is working

> > great.
> >
> > Issue:
> > When I login and the system loads my roaming profile all my "recent
> > Programs" list are gone, I cannot add more programs to this list in
the
> > start menu (no error just won't show) and it appears other windows
> > settings are not getting properly loaded either (i.e. I have a gray
> > start bar instead of my normal green/blue bar)
> >
> > Background on the move:
> > Old Server:
> > Ubuntu 6.06(i386) running Samba 3.0.22
> >
> > New Server:
> > Centos 5.2(i386) running Samba 3.0.28
> >
> > Clients:
> > All Windows XP Pro previously part of the Domain
> >
> > Any one have any advice for solving this issue?
> >
> > Aaron
>
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kissg wrote:
> First of all, check the domain SID on the new server. It should match
> the domain SID which was used on the old server. Also make sure, that
> permissions are correctly set on profile directories.
>
> To display the domain SID, type the following on the PDC:
>
> net getlocalsid
The sid's are properly set:
Old Server:
root@fileserver:~# net getlocalsid
SID for domain FILESERVER is: S-1-5-21-900971778-2820256422-4179658317
root@fileserver:~# net getlocalsid ajserver.com
SID for domain ajserver.com is: S-1-5-21-900971778-2820256422-4179658317

New Server:
[root@fileserver ~]# net getlocalsid
SID for domain FILESERVER is: S-1-5-21-900971778-2820256422-4179658317
[root@fileserver ~]# net getlocalsid ajserver.com
SID for domain ajserver.com is: S-1-5-21-900971778-2820256422-4179658317

>
> To set the domain SID use "net setlocalsid <SID>"
>
> Permissions of profile directories should be set like this:
>
> - User ownership: <the usename which the profiles belongs to>
> - Group ownership: the primary group of the user
> - Permission for the profile directory: 1777
> - Permission for the profile directory of a user: 0700 or 1700 (not
> sure about it)
Permissions checkout (they are identical to the old server, I used rsync
-Pa --numeric-ids to transfer the data, the made sure to copy over
/etc/passed section with users so they were identical)

The profile appears to be getting loaded correctly as items in My Docs
and Desktop etc, are all loaded correctly, it appears to be only windows
settings that are not getting properly loaded.

I figure it has to be something simple that is causing the Windows
settings not to get loaded properly.

Aaron
>
> I hope, I could help you.
>
> Regards
> Gergely Kiss
>
>
> 2008/7/16 Aaron Johnson <aaronjohnson@ajserver.com
> <mailto:aaronjohnson@ajserver.com>>:
>
> All,
> I am in the process of moving a PDC to a new server, the config,
> *.tdb files, linux user account files (/etc/passwd,shadow,group)
> and /home have all been moved successfully, shares and
> authentication is working great.
>
> Issue:
> When I login and the system loads my roaming profile all my
> "recent Programs" list are gone, I cannot add more programs to
> this list in the start menu (no error just won't show) and it
> appears other windows settings are not getting properly loaded
> either (i.e. I have a gray start bar instead of my normal
> green/blue bar)
>
> Background on the move:
> Old Server:
> Ubuntu 6.06(i386) running Samba 3.0.22
>
> New Server:
> Centos 5.2(i386) running Samba 3.0.28
>
> Clients:
> All Windows XP Pro previously part of the Domain
>
> Any one have any advice for solving this issue?
>
> Aaron
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>

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