samba PDC config problems?

[Andrew Perrin - Demography]

I don't know if this is the only problem, but domain logons should be on
the domain controller only, not on all the boxes.

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Andrew J. Perrin - aperrin at demog.berkeley.edu - NT/Unix Admin/Support
Department of Demography    -    University of California at Berkeley
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http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin --------------------------SEIU1199

On Tue, 4 May 1999, Mr. Alex Stepney wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm quite new to samba and have just purchased for our dept. several 
> NT 4.0 machines. I have been playing around with smb.conf and have run
> into a few problems. What I have tried to do is have one smb.conf for
> my UNIX domain master, passwd and WINS server and a second config file
> for all other uses boxes. Global definitions are the same in both
> files, e.g.
> 
>     domain logons = yes
>     logon script = %U.bat
>     allow hosts = @pcs, at suns
>     workgroup = IONNMR
>     encrypt passwords = yes
> 
> Then for master server (io), the following:
> 
>     domain master = yes
>     wins support = yes
>     local master = yes
>     preferred master = yes
>     security = user
>     
> And for all others:
> 
>     domain master = no
>     wins support = no
>     local master = no
>     wins server = io
>     password server = io
>     security = server
> 
> The UNIX machines are all happily talking to each other and I can get
> a welcome to the domain IONNMR from the NT box, but after a reboot and
> I try to log on I get the message "The system cannot log you on because
> the domain IONNMR is not available". I have enabled my smb password and
> if I log onto the NT machine as Administrator I can view the local network
> and can map drives with my username and password. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated as I seen to be going roung in circle at the moment.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Alex.
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> 
> Mr A.Stepney BSc, Systems Administrator
> 
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