[Samba] Windows XP logon and Samba PDC

[Daniel Zeiss]

Régis,

> i've tried all the modifications i-ve found to login with Windows XP Pro
> client on a Samba Server as PDC but nothing have worked. 

which is not a very telling error description, but I assume that 
something very early went wrong.

I have had the same problem, see my earlier posts some 3-4 weeks ago.

BUT

nobody did and could help me.

It seems to me that SAMBA is _not compatible_ with WinXP.

On some sites it seems to work on others it doesnt. Perhaps it is a 
question of patchlevel, WinXP version (french, german, english), 
Installation type (native, images (ghost, driveimage, partimage)) or 
what ever.

I also wrote a summary on what I found on the web to be advice for this 
problem, but still no developer or Samba guru could answer the question.

But what is worse, NOBODY COULD TELL ME HOW TO DEBUG and to FIND OUT 
what is going wrong.

So with this little information I quit using Samba as PDC. Samba now is 
peer2peer server only. Alread had a thought on getting Win2003 Server 
for PDC. I dont want all the Active Directory stuff. I just want to have 
central user authentification and roaming profiles. but....no chance 
with WinXP I guess.

Keep up digging, perhaps you will have more luck in discovering whats 
wrong. (please drop me a note)
bye
Daniel