Well here is a problem that has got us stumpt. We are running an SME 7.0 as the file server for about 4 Windows machines. The server also the controller for Windows Domains. It does not run mail nor acts as a web server.
The problem we have come across is after deleting two users then adding two users, the new users seems to have just taken over the the old user's profiles. That is all their settings and old documents etc are all there so much as their email settings. Also within Windows, the new users do not have permission to create a directory within Documents and Settings which means their profile for the machine cannot be made. I would assume it would be the domain controller that specifies the permissions for each user as they are made and imports those permissions on the local machine as they log in however we have not found a way to set permissions for normal users as yet on the server.
The errors I have encountered (of significance) when looking through /var/log/messages on the server are "getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected" and "get_alias_user_groups: gid of user _username_ doesn't exist. Check your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files" both of which we have checked and could not find a problem as the uid on both files matches. I have checked and the getpeername failed error is due to the port it tries to connect to so that is not the problem. However I am unsure of the get_alias_user_groups error is. After searching through the net people have suggested try looking in the smb.conf file which I have but I am not sure what needs to be changed (if anything does). This seems to only have happened for the two users that were deleted and the two new users that was added.
Any thoughts?
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