[Samba] missing domain

[ashley maher]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 00:15 -0700, Jonathan Johnson wrote:
> Ryan Verner wrote: 
> > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 09:55 +1000, ashley maher wrote:
> >   
> > > I have a samba 3 install with 14 new xp pro clients.
> > > 
> > > 13 of these I was able to join to the domain without any problems. (ie
> > > create machine accounts)
> > > 
> > > The 14th required a warranty repair and I went to put it onto the domain
> > > recently (several weeks intervening).
> > >     
> > 
> > Tried removing the machine account from the Samba server, changing the
> > XP client's computer name to something else, etc?
> >   
> I had a similar problem yesterday with a Windows XP Pro x64 (64-bit,
> based on Server 2003 kernel, I think) system. It seemed to be looking
> for a listing of the domain controller in DNS (even though my Samba
> server is performing WINS and TCP/IP on the workstation specified the
> Samba server as a WINS server), for which bind on my Linux/Samba
> server does not have the Active-Directory style entries that would
> include DC entries. So with only one half-tested example to go by, it
> seems that the latest incarnations of Windows ignore WINS and only
> care about AD-integrated DNS, at least when trying to join a domain.
> It's nice of Microsoft to go toward standards; unfortunately they also
> "embrace, extend, extinguish." The further they go, the more DNS looks
> like WINS. (How do you create AD-style entries in bind? A Google
> search might be in order, I haven't looked.)

Thanks for the reply,

The tcpdump results would agree with your suggestion. THat kinda scares
me.

Regards,

Ashley