Thoughts on problems with W2K joining ...

Richard Sharpe sharpe at ns.aus.com
Wed Dec 6 08:34:50 GMT 2000


At 12:41 PM 12/7/00 +0100, gandalf at mail.rss.cz wrote:
>
>Sorry to be unclear, it is workgroup parameter in the smb.conf
>For now, I tried four names (with the otherwise identical
>configuration) ->
>
>TGROUP does not work
>TGRP does not work
>GRP works
>GRPKP works

Damn, it looks like an alignment issue as Andrew said. An odd length
workgroup name seems to work, while an even length one does not! Win2K is
more fussy about alignment. I did not try changing the workgroup when I
tested. That gives me a clue to what the problem is.

Thank you very much!!!!

>s.p.
>
>On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>
>> At 12:01 PM 12/7/00 +0100, gandalf at mail.rss.cz wrote:
>> >
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I would not believe this, but I have seen it with my own eyes:  Got
>> >fresh cvs today, compiled, removed old /usr/local/samba, installed the
>> >fresh one, used the same smb.conf as million times before, started the
>> >w2k, tried to join domain, and - The domain cannot be accesed, blablabla,
>> >as usual (see my post few days ago with the subject 'another error...')
>> >Then I CHANGED THE GROUP NAME in the smb.conf file, restarted samba,
>>
>> What do you mean, you changed the group name?????
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Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
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