[Samba] XP "logon failure" but still logs on -- noroamingprofile

[richard]

sorry I've deleted your original message... ahh maybe we need to start
again. Could I suggest you follow the diagnostic procedure in the docs.
>From memory its diagnosis.txt ..its very logical and explains things as
you go. Then we'll have something to go on.
regards
Richard Coates.

On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 04:28, Brian White wrote:
> > maybe running tcpdump will reveal something?
> 
> Not a sausage.  There wasn't a single packet from the XP machine or the
> samba server that went to the other server during either a successful
> login or a problematic one.
> 
> Any other ideas?  I'm fresh out.  Did you look at the log files I provided
> in the original message?  I'm afraid I don't know them well enough to
> notice if something is missing.
> 
> -- Brian
> 
> 
> > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 01:12, Brian White wrote:
> > > > Are you auth-ing to your Pdc via a routed link? and do you have
> > > > effectively a Bdc on your local lan with a "profile" share enabled?
> > > > This had me stuffed for ages, disable profile share on Bdc "fixed" my
> > > > intermittant xp-pro domain logon problem. hope this helps.
> > > > regards
> > >
> > > The two machines are directly connected on an Ethernet subnet.  In fact,
> > > there is nothing on that ethernet segment other than those two machines.
> > > The server has another ethernet that talks with the internet firewall and
> > > another server managing a different workgroup (not domain) of Win98 hosts.
> > > I'll take a look to see if the XP host is trying to contact that other
> > > server at all.  It certainly doesn't have a "profile" share, though.
> > >
> > > There is no BDC yet.  My plan is to make each subnet server similar enough
> > > that if one fails I can just move its subnets to other server which would
> > > allow people to work uninterrupted until a replacement can be brought on-line.
> > >
> > > -- Brian
> 
>                                           Brian
>                                  ( bcwhite at precidia.com )
> 
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