297899 - Windows XP - Professional , server based Profiles in a Samba Domain, path to profile sometimes wrong

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[ezhik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050516 Firefox/1.0.4 (MOOX M1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050516 Firefox/1.0.4 (MOOX M1)

There is a design error in naming the profiles!

My problem occurs if a user has a local User Account on a PC.
After that, the PC gets a member of a SMB Domain. 
After the login of the same user on this PC, the user now gets a new named
Profile called username.domainname, cause there is a local user with the same
name. On other PCs in the SMB-domain, the users profile is named like his username!





If a username changes, the profilename is not changed, too in the profiles.ini,
so   a user can´t 
 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. You need a Samba Domain, with server based Profiles and a user test
1. two new Windows XP - Professional Installation
2. on 1. PC create local user: test
3. makes both PC a member of the SMB Domain
4. login with the domain user test on both PC s
(a profile test and a profitle test.domainname will be created)
5. install Thunderbird on both PCs
6. first PC: in profiles.ini the path "...\test.domainname\..." is used
7. logout on first PC
8. login on 2. PC
9. Thunderbird says: cannot open profile cause its in use , or sth. else (wrong
error warning, too!)

Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
useful server based profiles with thunderbird!
NO, the solution is NOT to change the path of the profile to a network path!
 

1. The naming of the profiles should be completly changed:

a) forget these xxxxxx.slt files, they are making more problems then giving a
solution (its not easy to just copy a profile)

b) use %USERPROFILE% as the Standard Pathes in profiles.ini, thats like the Home
directory in Unix based systems!

c) b) should work on all the versions: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP in
all variants. I am not sure if it works for Win 9x, too

Comment 1

[ezhik]

the new setting in 1.02 in profiles.ini seems: 
...
IsRelative=1
...

so this problem occurs only if you upgrade from one of the former versions!

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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