[Samba] Samba and WinXP problem

[Donald Saltarelli]

Run sysprep on the machine and try again. That should change all the
RIDS for the machine. 

Donald


On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 10:38, Stacy J.Dunkle wrote:
> Greets to all,
> 
>   Recently, I was given the task of setting up a Samba server where I 
> work, to accept domain logons for Win9x machines and also NT-based 
> machines, which consist of mostly XP boxes, with a couple 2K machines 
> as well. This domain would be replacing an older one, that was using a 
> very out of date Samba (from RedHat 6.1) that couldn't do XP/2K at all. 
> The new one is from RedHat 7.3, which has v.2.2.3a-6 of Samba.
> 
>   As I have learned in the past, XP can sometimes be a great pain to get 
> to join a Samba domain. This time, however, using what I learned in the 
> past, it went pretty flawlessly.  I did my testing mostly on 2 
> machines, a 2K box, and an XP box.
> 
>   All went well, until it was time for the server to go live. I had to 
> change the domain name on the server, and before doing so, I had the 2 
> machines un-join the domain, just in case that would cause a problem. 
> After changing the domain name and restarting Samba, I had the machines 
> join the new domain. The 2K box was OK with this, but the XP box, 
> however, was not.
> 
>   I went ahead and prepared the rest of the XP boxes in the building for 
> joining the domain, by changing the "signorseal" registry entry, adding 
> their machine accounts to Samba, etc., and they all joined the domain 
> just fine, and are doing the domain logon thing perfectly. The original 
> XP box I tested with, though, still gives me problems. It always gives 
> the following error:
> 
> "The following error occurred attempting to join the domain "techland":
> Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, 
> using more than one username, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous 
> connections to the server or shared resource and try again."
> 
> The only thing that was changed on the Samba server, was the 
> domain/workgroup name. I'm totally stumped. I've tried changing the 
> netbios name of the XP box, and added the new machine account to the 
> server, and got the same error. I tried refreshing the network adaptor 
> on the XP box, and got the same thing. I tried deleting the machine 
> account from the server and then re-adding it, to no avail. Checking 
> the Samba logs for this particular machine, shows nothing. I even did a 
> "tail -f" on the log, while trying to have the machine join the domain, 
> and it shows nothing.
> 
>   I searched Google for this problem, and only got one Samba-related 
> hit, and it wasn't quite the same problem I'm experiencing. I'm about 
> ready to wipe the machine and reformat/reinstall XP, but before going 
> to that extreme, I figured I'd try this list.
> 
> So, does anyone have any ideas? :-)
> 
> Stace
> 
> -- 
> Stacy J. Dunkle
> LAN Manager,
> Pennswoods.net
> 
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