Topic: troubles with Win XP Roaming Profiles

[Peter]

Guys,

I just solved an issue with a e-smith 5.5 box and Windows XP clients with roaming profiles.

I had problems loggin on and off with Windows XP. Loggin on and off took a lot of time. Finally after loggin off a message windows appeared with the statement that Windows was unable to save the roaming profile probably due to access permissions. However, everything appeared to be fine, file permissions and SMB configuration.

The "oplocks" setting in smb.conf did the trick for me. I changed "oplocks = false" to "oplocks = yes".

Problem solved.

Grt.

Peter

[Gordon]

Peter

Does your system have any special database applications? I have seen some like Fidelio require special oplocks settings.

We have also seen XP Logon & Off problems but as our users stay with a machine, we have turned off roaming profiles on the SME and adjusted the Performance tab in XP to set their profile to local and also turned off Off Line Folders.

We recently did some testing and found XP with roaming profiles turned on was pulling 11Mb from the server just to logon. This was a recently installed system with no overloaded profile.

Gordon

[Peter]

I don't have any special databases running. Just regular office applications like Word & Excel. Most of the profiles are not larger then 2 to 4 Mb. At logon the machine loads the profile fast and without any problem, even the bigger profiles (the ones from laptops, approx: 20 Mb.) The problem seems to be solved but users complain that when the computer shuts down the profile cannot be stored. In the workstations samba logs I see numerous errors like:

read_data: read failure for 4. Error = No route to host

and

oplock_break: receive_smb timed out after 30 seconds.

I'm lost. I you can think of a solution, i'll be glad to hear...

Regards,

Peter