[Samba] Samba as PDC for WinXP, Win98 and Win95

Jerome Warnier jwarnier at bxlug.be
Mon Jan 27 18:56:47 GMT 2003


joao marka wrote:
> well, just to let ya know my case, the first macine w/ xp pro i´ve 
> installed here, i´ve tried everything (including the signorseal patch) 
> and it didn´t worked out... just after the service pack...
> the second machine, i´ve just installed the service pack 1 and... voila! 
> it joined the domain without need to run the signorseal patch......
I can now confirm the XP stations on which I failed have XP Pro and SP1 
applied.
Anyone has another (better) idea?

> i don´t know if someone had the same experience w/ XP ( just one litle 
> detail... brazilian portuguese version...)
> 
> but, anyway, try the patch!
> 
> 
> At 15:48 27/01/03, Michael Paarmann wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> If done the same job, but i've replaced a novell server with a samba 
>> pdc based on SuSE Linux. I had different problems with Win XP Pro, but 
>> none with the other WinOS.
>> Have you installed the "SignOrSeal"-Patch? Without this, you can't 
>> logon with a win xp machine on a samba domain.
>> Use Google to find this patch.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> At 13:54 27.01.2003 -0200, you wrote:
>>
>>> well, first thing to know... is your Xp home or professional ?
>>> if is home, bad news, great troubles...
>>> if professional, try The Windows XP service pack 1, here at my 
>>> network it has worked very well...
>>> but if is home... all logon scripts and profiles will be stored 
>>> locally at the client side, no way to do different.
>>> another thing to do is to create a machine account on the samba side, 
>>> just like an NT4 machine.
>>>
>>> At 12:20 27/01/03, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> Ive just got the lovely job of converting and old Windows NT 4 
>>>> fileserver to FreeBSD, ive set up samba before as a simple fileshare 
>>>> but this place requires roaming profile login from WinXP, Win98 and 
>>>> Win95 clients.
>>>> My question is whether or not any of you people have any experience 
>>>> with this and might be able to give some tips on the way? I've tried 
>>>> fidling with it but i cant get my WinXP clients to logon to the 
>>>> domain :(
>>>>
>>>> I need all the help i can get :)
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>> Simon
>>>>
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