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[Rob Naccarato]

>>Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 09:23:04 -0500
>>From: Jason Gerrity <jason.gerrity at sheridanc.on.ca>
>>To: Multiple recipients of list <samba at samba.anu.edu.au>
>>Subject: Anyone else seen this?
>>Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19971111092304.006cf658 at pop.sheridanc.on.ca>
>>
>>Hello All,
>>
>>I was just wondering if anyone else is seeing these problems...
>>
>Every so often our Win95 clients can not authenticate.  They get the error:
>>
>>"The network could not validate your username.  You cannot use Windows
>>unless your username is validated by the network.  Make sure you typed
>>everything corectly, or contact your administrator."
>>
[snip]

>>Our system is:
>>
>>2 Dec Alphas 3.2g (same subnet- each with multiple interfaces) - 1 home dir
>>1 login/file server
>>~150 Pentium clients running win95 (OSR2)
>>Samba 17p4
>>
>
>I wonder if the DNS services are busy/not working for short intervals. This
>would do this to you...

We are running an older version of Bind (4.x) that comes with DEC Unix.
Will an upgrade to 8.1 help, do you think?

-- 
Rob Naccarato           "I know I'm a lot of feathers,
Sys Admin               but not much chicken."
Sheridan College                         -KM
Oakville, Ont. Canada



-- 
Rob Naccarato           "I know I'm a lot of feathers,
Sys Admin               but not much chicken."
Sheridan College                         -KM
Oakville, Ont. Canada