Topic: Vista (Business) Romaing Profiles?

[thymox]

Hi all,

I have a bit of a problem.  I am trying to get Windows Vista Business machines to load/create "roaming profiles" from my SME 7.4 server.

I am planning on deploying SMEServer in our business, but before I depoly it I aim to ensure I can get everything working nicely first.

I am running SME7.4 in a virtual machine with 2 virtual NICs - one is connected to the "outside" world, the other one is connected to the internal inter-virtual-machine network.  Most things are working nicely.  I have SME configured as a "Windows Domain Controller" with "Roaming Profiles" enabled.  Windows XP clients are able to join the domain, authenticate against it and create roaming profiles for new users as expected.

Vista Business clients, however, can join the domain and authenticate against it, but fail to create roaming profiles for new users.  Indeed, it fails to load any form of profile.

I have tried the following suggestions (found here and on other sites):

+ Adding an alias to the Profiles share called "Profiles.V2"
+ Modifying the Local Security Policy to "Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated"
+ Removing the SID entries from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Still, after making these changes (and rebooting as necessary to ensure they are loaded) I still get the following upon logging in as a domain user:

Your user profile was not loaded correctly!
You have been logged on with a temporary profile.
Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.
Please see the event log for details or contact your administrator.

And in Event Log I get an ID 1511 error.

I have seen a few answers claiming that upgrading Samba to 3.0.22 or higher resolves this since they can handle NTLMv2... however, I can confirm that I am running Samba 30.0.28-0.el4.9 (which I'm pretty sure is higher than 3.0.22).

I am not happy with the default response of some people elsewhere of "use your downgrade rights to and just downgrade to XP".

Has anyone sucessfully got Vista roaming profiles working on an SME 7.4 server?

Cheers.
Grant.

[cactus]

Has anyone sucessfully got Vista roaming profiles working on an SME 7.4 server?

Perhaps this might help: http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3666

But since I do not have Vista I can not verify and suggest improved code.

[David Harper]

I researched the solution to sharing XP & Vista profiles (LOTS of symlinks) and decided not to try.

Have you tried logging on as a Vista user that doesn't have a pre-existing XP profile on the server? This will help determine whether your issue is being caused by an XP/Vista conflict or a Vista-only issue.

[thymox]

Thank you.

Having read through that bug report, I now have it working... sort of.

If I make a symlink from bob to bob.v2, Vista no longer complains about not being able to load the profile properly and creates one nicely.

I'm not too worried about having everything the same for users across XP and Vista as most users will stick to using "their" machine, but being able to change to another one would be an occasionally helpful thing.

I am planning on using folder redirection (if I can figure it out) so things like their "My Documents" points to the same place regardless of OS.

Which brings me to another question, but I'll post a new thread about it.