[Samba] Samba Domain Login

[John H Terpstra]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Finn Blucher wrote:

Finn,

What version of Samba are you running? Please email me your smb.conf file
off line to <jht at samba.org>.

- John T.

> Okay,
>    I'm really starting to run out of ideas here. Any help would really
> be handy. I'm looking after a small network, clients are running win2000
> SP3 and a Linux Server running samba, doing domain logins. Everything is
> working fine apart from two machines (from ten). Probably once a week
> one of them will fail to login in after a reboot or log off. If any
> user tries to login into the domain it comes up with the error "The
> system cannot log you on to the domain because the systems computer
> account in its primary domain is missing or the password on
> that account is incorrect." Now the fix for this is simple enough. I log
> into the local machine put the workstation back to a workgroup, reboot,
> log in and re-add the computer to the domain and every ones happy ( for
> a week or so). I've re-imaged the machines from one of the machines on
> the network that doesn't exhibit the problem and sure enough, after a
> week or so, down she goes. I've physically swapped one of the failing
> machines out for a working one and shortly after the "new" machine is
> failing again. There is no difference in the software or hardware
> between any of the machines on the network, all part of the same roll
> out, all on the same image. All of the machines except for one have done
> had this problem, but only once, after I put them to workgroup then back
> to domain they're happy and have been for six months, it's just these
> two machines that keep doing it. The two failing machines are not near
> each other but they are occasionally used by the same user. I've got the
> logs if that will help people.
>
> Any help really apreciated,
> Finn.
>

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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org