windows cannot create local profile – roaming disabled

[Anonymous]

I have my OS 10.3.3 Server set up as a windows PDC. I disabled the roaming profile in smb using the following info:

[quote:5d18043bb4]Disable them in the smb.conf file

take out this line or slap an number sign in front of it.

# logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U[/quote:5d18043bb4]

When I try logging in from an XP machine, I still get a message about “windows cannot lcate the server copy of the roaming profile” . The machine then boots up using a temporary profile that does not save any settings.

I basically want my windows users to use a local profile in their machine while connecting to my PDC domain. I dont want to set up roaming profiles because our windows machines tend to take a while to boot up. Anyone have any ideas on how I can get this to work?

I called Apple Support but they wanted me to pay $6000 so they can help me fix this problem.

[bcirvin]

can you change the syntax of the profile path to point to the local disk?

i have not tried roaming profiles in 10 server, so excuse any stupidity.

blake/

[jnelson]

The solution we had to this problem was to log in once on the Windows machine as a roaming profile and then go to the User Profiles management screen in Windows and from there tell it to use a local profile for that user.

Not a perfect solution but did work for our notebook users.

[Spectrum]

That is the only way other than a registry hack to do this. By default, NT (win2k+ as well) expects to be a domain member ans use roaming profiles.

[boberito]

put this in your SMB.conf

logon path =

I was just fighting this as well with some linux servers. In Samba2 logon path = “” worked but in 3 it didnt work until we did it just equaling nothing at all.

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