Hi

I have had this problem for a while, but waited to post this until I upgraded to see whether the upgrade would fix it. I upgraded samba to the 4.2.X stream from 3.6.X stream, but it happens on both, 3.6.X and 4.2.10.

Whenever someone logs out, then in again the profile gets corrupted and a new TEMP profile is created (the dreadful “creating new desktop”). Now I do not know where this problem is – the desktop or the server. It also happens if you wait 1/2 hour or so, never tried it longer.

I can quickly fix this by:

– tell the user to log out
– rsync -avHAX the profile with yesterdays profile
– tell the user to log in again

Now if I log out on my workstation, then on the server I do a “smb reload”, then log in again this problem does not happen.

This morning a person logged out of his workstation, went over to the bigscreen in one of our training rooms and logged in there, then logged out, went over to his machine but got the dreadful “preparing desktop” on login ….

Anybody got any idea?

thanks Jobst

Here is some info:
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All latest patches installed on everything.

OS server: CentOS 6.X
OS Workstations: Windows 7 Prof Samba: 4.2.10 (was 3.6.23)
Other: roaming profiles (as we log into other stations, e.g. training rooms)

smb.conf (important bits):
[global]
workgroup = LALA
server string = Domain Server
netbios name = LALAMACHINE
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
interfaces = eth0, lo
bind interfaces only = yes
# these flags were recommended.
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF1072 SO_SNDBUF1072

# Logging, what, how much, etc
log level = 1
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/samba.log
max log size = 10000000

# Auditing
vfs objects = full_audit
full_audit:prefix = %u|%I|%m|%S
full_audit:failure = none
full_audit:facility = LOCAL4
full_audit:priority = NOTICE
full_audit:success = none
full_audit:failure = none

idmap config *: backend = tdb
idmap config *: range = 1000000-1999999
idmap config LALA : default = Yes
idmap config LALA : backend =
idmap config LALA : range = 500-999999

winbind use default domain = Yes
winbind nested groups = Yes
winbind normalize names = no

# domain stuff
logon script = user.cmd
logon path = \\lalamachine\profiles\%u
logon drive = Z:
logon home = \\lalamachine\%u\samba-homeshare
domain logons = Yes
os level = 200
domain master = Yes
dns proxy = No
wins support = Yes
security = user
encrypt passwords = Yes
hosts allow = 192.168.0., 127.
guest account = nobody
usershare allow guests = No

# printer setup
load printers = Yes
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
printcap = cups
printcap cache time = 750
cups options = raw
read raw = yes
write raw = yes
oplocks = yes
max xmit = 65535
dead time = 15
getwd cache = yes

# Samba implements the CIFS UNIX
unix extensions = no

[netlogon]
comment = Network Logon Service
path = /samba/NetLogon
browseable = Yes
guest ok = yes
admin users = root
full_audit:success = none
full_audit:failure = none
# this is required for log files to be written to
read only = No
write list = @lalausers, @lalaadmins

[profiles]
comment = Roaming Profile Share
path = /samba/Profiles/
read only = No
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
browseable = yes
# you MUST disable caching on shares that have roaming profiles stored
csc policy = disable
guest ok = no
valid users = @lalausers, @lalaadmins
admin users = root
store dos attributes = yes
profile acls = yes
full_audit:success = none
full_audit:failure = none