[Samba] The system cannot log you on now becuase the domain iis unavailable on XP Pro.

[Jeffery Cox]

Andrew,

Thank you for the information, it allowed me to make progress, however I am
now getting the following error:

The domain controller is down or otherwise unavailable or the machine
account cannot be found.

I have used "smbpasswd -a -m rm6$" to add the machine account. Without this
it goes back to the "Domain is unavailable" message, but with it I get the
new message. Is there a way I can manually edit the smbpasswd file?

Thanks again for all of your help, 

-Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Bartlett [mailto:abartlet at samba.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:24 PM
To: Jeffery Cox
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] The system cannot log you on now becuase the domain iis
unavailable on XP Pro.

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:47:39PM -0600, Jeffery Cox wrote:
> Yes I am using XP Pro. I have joined the XP machine to the domain 
> successfully. I am running Samba 2.27 on RHL 9. Whenever I log on to 
> the machine and attempt a domain logon, I am told that the domain is 
> unavailable. I have searched google many times with many permutations 
> and have not found an accurate solution to this problem. I have Win95 
> and 98 machines which log on without any trouble. It's only the XP 
> machine that fails. I am using PAM authorization and have disabled 
> encrypted passwords on XP.

Plaintext passwords are incompatible with domain logons.  Win9X is an
exception because it doesn't really join the domain.

Upgrade to Samba 3.0 (avoids registry patches on WinXP) and turn on
encrypted passwords.

Andrew Bartlett