[Samba] Workstation service failing

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Aug 3 02:10:13 GMT 2004


On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 11:40, Joseph E. Werle wrote:
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> 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
> 
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recognize that this is an awful symptomatic solution to a bigger
problem.

What I know is that a properly configured samba server as a PDC works
well - for Windows XP Professional and the users need not be
Administrators or Power Users.

Craig



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