[Samba] windows env variable for USERDOMAIN is wrong

[Jonathan Johnson]

You said...

> Just a guess, but this might have been an issue because I created some
users before I made Samba a PDC. (since I think this is why I had the
name wrong, it's really my prob :)

Yup, I've run into a similar situation. The Samba server was running in
workgroup mode (not domain controller) for quite some time before it was
converted to a domain controller. After that change, when I'd log in
with pre-DC accounts, the userdomain would be the name of the samba
server, not the domain. To fix it, I converted the passdb backend from
tdbsam to smbpasswd then back again.

--Jon Johnson
Sutinen Consulting, Inc.
www.sutinen.com
(360) 270-9317 cell



Greg Fischer wrote:

>I am not logged in locally.  I checked for that.
>
>I did, however, find a cure...  since it's a new install with new user
>accts, I just deleted the samba account and recreated it.  (not the unix
>acct)
>
>smbpasswd -x username
>smbpasswd -a username
>
>The user then had the domain name set correctly for USERDOMAIN.  And this
>didnt affect the XP profile.  (since this fixed it, I have to assume this is
>a Samba prob)
>
>Just a guess, but this might have been an issue because I created some users
>before I made Samba a PDC. (since I think this is why I had the name wrong,
>it's really my prob :)
>
>Thanks for the help.
>
>Greg
>
>On 12/18/05, Doug VanLeuven <roamdad at sonic.net> wrote:
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>>Greg Fischer wrote:
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>>>Hi all,
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>>>I just setup my Samba PDC.  Mostly everything works, but I am wondering
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>>why
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>>>on some clients, they have the wrong USERDOMAIN environment
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>>variable.  (when
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>>>you run 'set' in win xp cmd)
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>>>The domain name is MEIDLING, and the user and computer are joined
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>>ok.  But
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>>>in set, it shows USERDOMAIN as the Server name. Which is MAIN.
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>>>How do I change that?
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>>As far as I know, when the environment variable USERDOMAIN is set to the
>>machine
>>name, it means you have logged in locally to the machine instead of on the
>>domain.
>>
>>Not a samba problem.
>>
>>Regards, Doug
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>--
>Greg Fischer
>1st Byte Solutions
>http://www.1stbyte.com
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