[Bug 521085] [NEW] Samba 3.4.0 denies access to Roaming Profiles for XP Clients

[Patrick Goetz]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: samba

Source Package: samba_2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.4
Ubuntu Release: 9.10 (Karmic 64-bit AMD Server)

This is basically the same problem as reported in Bug #397699; however
the problem persists in Karmic (9.10) and has not been fixed, as far as
I can tell.  Using an smb.conf file which worked perfectly for (Debian)
samba_3.0.2-2, one gets something similar to the following error message
when trying to login using a roaming profile on a Windows XP machine:

"Windows did not load your roaming profile and is attempting to log you
on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to
the server when you logoff. Windows did not load your profile because a
server copy of the profile folder already exists that does not have the
correct security. Either the current user or the Administrator's group
must be the owner of the folder. Contact your network administrator."

Deleting the profile and starting with a clean slate allows the user to
login and logout again, however the message above is repeated upon a
subsequent attempt to login.

I tried every suggestion I could find to fix this, including such ill-
advised steps as chmod'ing the permissions on the profile to 1777.

My original profile share configuration in smb.conf looked like this:
[profile]
   create mode = 0600
   directory mode = 0700
   path = /home/%U/profile
   read only = no
   profile acls = yes
   browseable = yes

One suggestion involved changing the create and directory mode masks as
follows:

[profile]
   force create mode = 0777
   force directory mode = 0777
   path = /home/%U/profile
   read only = no
   profile acls = yes
   browseable = yes

This did not solve the problem.  As far as I can tell, the bug reported
for Jaunty samba 3.3.2 has not been fixed for Karmic samba 3.4.0.

Given the importance of Samba in many linux server environments, the
fact that this was not tested more thoroughly before  Karmic was
released is frankly shocking and disappointing.

** Affects: samba (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Samba 3.4.0 denies access to Roaming Profiles for XP Clients
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