Windows 98 + domain logons

Gerald Carter gcarter at valinux.com
Fri Dec 1 03:34:39 GMT 2000


Svein Roar Nilsen wrote:
> 
> I'm sorry, no. I have no such snapshot available.
> 
> But once I had these problems, I powered down all PC's, 
> stopped Samba, deleted all files from /var/lock/samba/, 
> restarted samba and switched on one single PC, and saw 
> that it registered itself and it's workgroup correctly as soon 
> as it started and that ESTER and FJELLTUN also appeared as 
> they should. (At least it looked very correct. Three lines for 
> the PC (#00, #03, #20) and two lines for the workgroup (#00 and 
> #1e, I think).

You should also have a #1b line for the domain master.
If the Samba server is not registering this, the Windows
client will not be able to locate the DC.






Cheers, jerry
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