sudden loss of password validation

[Nicholas Tang]

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, David Baird wrote:

> The problem: Strangely, the PDC rejects user password challenges from Samba.
> The user account gets locked. After unlocking the account, everything is
> back to normal. This happens several times a day to different users and from
> different Samba servers. All Samba servers have the same [global]
> configuration.

I ran into a similar problem when moving to 2.0.3 from 1.9.x - switching
to using DOMAIN security fixed it for me.  You might want to consider
trying that where you are.

Nicholas

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