[Samba] Problems in logging on to a samba 2.2.4 domain from Windows XP

[scussel at sslmit.univ.trieste.it]

Hi

try to disinstall every protocol from network properties except for client for  microsoft networks and TCP/IP.
Bye.
Giorgio Scussel

> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 17:06:54 +0100
> From: Claus Svarer <csvarer at nru.dk>
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Problems in logging on to a samba 2.2.4 domain from
> Windows XP
> 
> Hi
> 
> We have just received our first Windows XP machine and have joined it
> to
> a Samba domain (vers 2.2.4). Before doing this we were setting the
> "requiresignorseal" to "disabled" (running the .reg file). Joining it
> to
> the domain was done without any problems (we did create a machine
> account before doing this) and the first domain logon was also done
> without any problems. After having done a logout from the domain,
> rebooting the machine and then trying to login to the domain again an
> error message is received. The error message is "Windows cannot
> connect
> to the domain either because the domain controller is down or
> otherwise
> unavailable or because your computer account was not found".
> 
> An error message is written into the samba log file for the machine.
> It
> looks like:
> 
> [2002/11/01 15:36:17, 1] smbd/password.c:(545)
>   Couldn't find user 'administrator' in passdb.
> [2002/11/01 15:36:17, 1] smbd/password.c:(545)
>   Couldn't find user 'administrator' in passdb.
> [2002/11/01 15:36:17, 1] smbd/reply.c:(989)
>   Rejecting user 'administrator': authentication failed
> [2002/11/01 15:36:28, 1] smbd/password.c:(545)
> 
> We don't have an administrator account defined in the smbpasswd file,
> but we have a local machine account in the Windows XP machine with
> that
> name.
> 
> Has anyone seen the same problem and found a solution for this
> problem?
> 
> Best regards
> Claus Svarer
> 
> PS We have many Windows2000 machines that uses the same Samba domain.
> They are used without any problems
> 
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