[Samba] Samba as PDC with WinXP Clients -> headache!!

[Thomas Klettke]

Daniel,
for XP you need to patch the registry in order to cooperate with a Samba
PDC. I don't have the exact info handy at the moment, but if you search
the Samba docs for "XP" and "registry" you should find it easily.

Thomas


On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 09:42, Daniel Zeiss wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> my last post was about upscale configuration for my WinXP clients, 
> because I believed I had it working, but ...
> 
> Next day I booted the client and .... it wouldnt let me log onto the 
> domain again. :-(
> 
> I am using Samba 2.2.8a with Ldap backend which works great in workgroup 
> mode.
> 
> Joining the domain is very easy and works well, but then after rebooting 
> I get:
> 
> "Es kann keine Verbindung mit der Domäne hergestellt werden, da der 
> Domaincontroller nicht verfügbar ist bzw. das Computerkonto nicht 
> gefunden wurde. Wiederholen Sie den Vorgang später...." [german]
> 
> In english it is something like:
> 
> "No connection to the domain could be established, because the 
> Domaincontroller is not available or the computeraccount is not found. 
> Please retry later...."
> 
> (very funny:-> "retry later", M$ joke!!)
> 
> I searched on Google for this problem and found some people with the 
> same problem.
> 
> The were told to do the reg hack "requiresignorseal" = 0, deactivate 
> encryption (for client/server) change to use "LM and NTLM".
> 
> These settings are already all done on my systems, but still I get the 
> message.
> 
> The computer can connect to the samba server on share basis manually.
> 
> The strange thing is, that it doesnt matter wether I type in my passwort 
> correct or false, i always "in milliseconds" get the same messagebox. 
> There is no communication between the workstation and the samba server.
> 
> I also found that there is something like "fast logons" which uses 
> asyncron logon which is default. I also tried the syncron mode. No success.
> 
> The test clients are  PC a Windows XP where the domainlogon worked, but 
> stopped working now and PC b which was a fresh install and domainlogon 
> never worked.
> 
> Can you help?
> How can I debug this?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Daniel
>