[Samba] Logins require local admin membership on Windows XP

[Lee Ball]

I am still working through this problem and I think (take that lightly) 
that I am nearing a solution. I believe that the problem is related to 
the tdb files. I am currently going through these files using tdbdump. 
My question is, what is the process that creates these files?
I have seen articles (posts, mailing lists etc) that state that the 
/var/cache can be emptied as it gets recreated.
So if this dir gets recreated then there is something else that I need 
to modify otherwise my changes to the tdb files won't be permanent.

Thanks

Eric Hines wrote:

> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-HOWTO.pdf , newly updated.  
> You'll likely want Chapt 34, in particular.
>
> Eric Hines
>
> Lee Ball wrote:
>
>> Is there a process that you should do when migrating from Samba 2 to 
>> Samba 3?
>>
>> I have spoken to my colleague who did the migration and the way it 
>> was done was to copy the files that contain the user accounts over.
>>
>> The symptoms we seem to have is that a workstation won't allow access 
>> to certain files unless it recognises that you are either a member of 
>> the domain admins group or a member of the administrators group on 
>> the local machine. This is what causes the programs to not function. 
>> It appears to be only programs that require specific access to things 
>> stored on the local machine. I think one of these examples is the 
>> ODBC files used to communicate with access databases. Trackit for 
>> example.
>>
>>
>> I've googled for migration information but turned up with nothing 
>> specific at the moment. I'm going to re-read the Samba 3 docs now 
>> though incase there is something in there.
>>


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