[SOLVED]Roaming profile with WinXP64 client

[mike_p2]

Hi

I'm trying to get roaming profiles working on a Zentyal 3.5.2 installation.

Having enabled roaming profiles on the Zentyal server, the windows registry seems to show a path
\\zserver1.MYDOMAIN.LAN\profiles\myname
 (where the zentyal server is named zserver1 and the domain is named mydomain)
However windows cannot resolve that path.
It can however resolve:
\\zserver1\profiles\myname
The path in the registry is reset every time I login, so I can't just manually change it.

Any suggestions on how to resolve this problem?

[mike_p2]

This problem also appears to affect the home directory. The automatically created share is being created with the address
\\zserver1.MYDOMAIN.LAN\myname
which also cannot be resolved.

Additional information:
I set up a Windows Vista client. When first connected, it created \\zserver1.MYDOMAIN.LAN\myname and that was visible but a share using \\zserver1\sharename was not found,
but after logging in again, \\zserver1.MYDOMAIN.LAN\myname could not be reached but \\zserver1\sharename could be reached.

[royceb]

Mike sounds like some dns fun.

Can you ping zserver1.MYDOMAIN.LAN and does this resolve properly to your PDC ip address?

[mike_p2]

Thanks!

I've now enabled DNS on the server and set the DNS on my client to use the server IP address.
It can now resolve the address \\zserver.MYDOMAIN.LAN\

Now I have the situation where the WINXP client can access the profile folder on the server, but is not actually using it. The user profiles dialog on the XP client shows the domain/user profile type as "Roaming" but the status as "local".

Any ideas?

[mike_p2]

Having sorted the dns problem as described in the posts above, after a few log on/off cycles the roaming profile has started to work properly.