[Samba] Workstation service failing

[Terry Wood]

If only 1 or 2 users log into that box, you can set those users up as 
local admins on that XP box, log in as one of the users you set up and 
go to Control Panel->Admin Tools->Services : open up properties of the 
workstation service, click on the Recovery tab and set First Failure, 
Second Failure, and Subsequent Failures to "Restart the Service". 
Roaming profiles won't work, but you will have access to shares on your 
samba server. This will also run any logon batch files the server hands 
out and it will also map drives. The downside to this is that (again) 
Roaming profiles will  not work, and it takes several minutes to log in 
the first time after a restart. So, while this is a horrible solution, 
it can be useful in some cases until this problem is solved. Out of the 
8 machines that are having a problem, only 1 didn't work with this 
temporary solution.

Joseph E. Werle wrote:

> I am having the same problem with one of my xp boxes.   The only 
> solution i have found is that when the machine boots you must first 
> login to the Local Administrator Account not the domain.  then you can 
> log out and log onto the domain as a normal user.  In my investigation 
> i have found that the Computer Browser service is failing, One 
> sugestion i have gotten is to set that service to logon to the locol 
> administrator account.  Havent tried this as of yet, I'll let you know 
> how it  works.  This is a strange error because i have 2 other XP 
> boxes running identicle copies of XP with no problems
>