[Samba] problem with local logon using roaming profiles

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:19, lists at wd.nu wrote:
> I\'ve set up a samba 3 PDC which seems to be running perfectly fine. All workstations can log in properly and roaming profiles also works as expected. One of the workstations, a laptop, is on the road from time to time and therefor I naturally disconnected it from the network and did a routine logon to the domain i had setup before releasing it into the wild again. The logon failed...
> 
> I had expected a simple error message telling me I can\'t use the servers profile but the error message I receive is:
> \"The system cannot log you on now because the domain xxx is not available.\"
> 
> I\'ve tried the same procedure on several workstations and get the same result on all but one (which btw seems perfectly oblivious to the other workstations problem with the task).
> 
> I\'ve also checked the local policy settings in Windows to make sure the cached logons setting is > 0, and indeed it\'s set to the default 10.
> 
> I\'ve checked around for anyone having the same problem but can\'t seem to find it. If there are anyone out there that have any advice at all I\'d be very grateful!
> 
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best to check your logs on the samba machine. On my system, they're in
/var/log/samba/log.netbios_name_of_machine

Craig