Topic: Re:Vista and profile

[cattledog]

Just a question it would not be a error as pre say but when login to vista it keep saying problem with roaming profile see administrator :0 me it and can not for the life of me see where the issue is.  Any help in this would be greatful........I did do a search and found something but the problem was it is in French and me a aussie ie:english and it had not translate.

Cheers
cattledog

[philbrearley]

Cattledog,
For a quick fix, disable roaming profiles in the workgroup settings in server-manager.  Vista uses a different profile schema. XP and Vista profiles are not compatible.

For the real fix, vista adds v2 to the profile name to distinguish it from earlier XP/2000 profiles. Vista is the new boy in town and does things differently. You are also better using folder redirection to achieve quicker logons.

See this link for more detailed info:
http://4sysops.com/archives/windows-vista-and-windows-xp-roaming-user-profiles-interoperability-folder-redirection-is-the-only-way/

and this for some background on basic roaming profiles:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/en-us/management/manage_faq.mspx

Phil Brearley

[beakersloco]

Disable roaming profiles like what was said .   Also what version of vista are you using ?

I have Vista Premium and I have no problems accessing my sme server from  a vista laptop.   Basically once I log in and I am able to access my network shares with no problems.

[Oosterheert]

A very late reaction and maybe a lot of people figured this out themselves, but there is a simple solution that I didn't find on this forum yet:

For roaming profiles SME makes a folder in /home/e-smith/files/samba/profiles for every user.
So for user 'test' it makes the folder /home/e-smith/files/samba/profiles/test

Windows XP puts all it's profile setting etc in that map.
Windows Vista can't put it in that map.

The solution is to simply make another folder for the Vista profile named username.V2

So for the user 'test' make a new map /home/e-smith/files/samba/profiles/test.V2
Give only the owner all permissions (700) and change the owner and group to the user.

Then log on to the Vista machine and when logging of it will put the profile in this .V2 folder

The downside is offcourse that you have to make a new folder and modify the permissions for it for every user.
The good part is that it's a simple action that doesn't involve any actions on the client side.
Secondly, since it is simply a new folder in the profiles map, it should be backed up with the other profiles.

[cactus]

A very late reaction and maybe a lot of people figured this out themselves, but there is a simple solution that I didn't find on this forum yet

And that is why we advice people to search the bugtracker and forums as it is already reported: http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3666

Perhaps as some of you seem to have access to Vista you might be willing to test suggested work-around in comment 2 of that bug, since I do not have access to Vista.