Experiences with Win 2000 and samba-TNG

[Mayers, P J]

Heh! Luke changed the default for TNG:

"debug timestamps = yes"

IIRC. It's in the man page for smb.conf

Cheers,
Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tom Crummey [SMTP:tom at ee.ucl.ac.uk]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 07, 2000 4:50 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject:	Experiences with Win 2000 and samba-TNG
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have finally taken the plunge and downloaded TNG using cvs. This report
> relates to a cvs update of 7th March 2000. The domain controller is a 
> SUN E450 running Solaris 2.7. samba built cleanly (barring a few
> warnings of initialisations from non-compatible pointers and discarding
> of consts). If anyone wants the gory details let me know.
> 
> What works:
> 
> A Windows 2000 box which was joined to the domain (EE) using the cvs from 
> 6th March, will allow domain logins, will run a netlogon script (most of
> the time) and will implement roaming profiles. Problems we have had with
> this include, profiles not being downloaded when the %U substitution
> is used, but we used the %username% workaround posted a few days ago.
> I have not tested the %U substitution today, but saw no evidence of
> anything in the cvs updates to suggest that it had been fixed since 
> yesterday.
> 
> What doesn't work:
> 
> Joining another Win 2000 box to the domain. It appears to join in that
> you can go all the way through the windows Identification wizard. It then 
> pauses for a long time and then offers you the opportunity to add a user
> to the local machine. If you try to do that, you get an error message:
> 
> The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain
> failed.
> 
> If I look in the smbpasswd file though, a machine account is added
> for the workstation.
> 
> Logging onto the domain on the system then fails with the error:
> 
> The system cannot log you on to this domain because the system's computer
> account in its primary domain is missing or the password on that account
> is incorrect.
> 
> Has anyone any ideas why this might occur?
> 
> Is there any way to get debug/log messages to be timestamped? I find
> it very difficult to relate the lines in each of the 8 or 9 log files
> to a particular action taken on a client. 
> 
> Thanks to everyone who is putting effort into getting TNG working well,
> especially Luke.
> 
> Tom.
> 
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