[Samba] Win2K or Samba Caching?

[Robert Rati]

I found the CachedLogonsCount registry settings in the Windows client 
and set them to 0 (zero), but it had no effect.  The deleted user could 
still log on.  On top of that, no new users can log on so something 
seems amiss.

Rob

Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Robert Rati wrote:
> | I have a PDC that is Samba 3.0 setup to talk to an OpenLDAP server for
> | authentication, and I was able to get a user to log in to a Windows 2000
> | machine on the domain.  Then I tried adding additional users, but none
> | of them could log in.  So I tried deleting the admin user from the LDAP
> | database, but the user could still log into the Windows 2000 machine.
> | Then I tried stopping the LDAP database completely, and while it took
> | the Windows 2000 machine a long time to attempt to authenticate, the
> | user could STILL log into the machine.  Does anyone know if Windows 2000
> | or Samba 3.0 do any user/authentication cachine?  Is there any other
> | explanation for this?
> 
> The windows client is cachign the logons.  It's controlled by a
> registry key.  CacheLogonsCount or something like that.
> 
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