[Samba] domain controller cannot be contacted

[Craig White]

This too would be a good candidate for samba wiki http://wiki.samba.org
since it comes up often.

Craig

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 16:56 +0200, Louis van Belle wrote:
> You know "User Hive Cleanup Service for XP, if not install it.
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-
> B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en
> 
> 
> I experienced problemen with loggin's because some programs 
> badly closes the registry, of a old connection with samba stays
> open.
> 
> Louis
>  
> 
> >-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> >Van: samba-bounces+louis=van-belle.nl at lists.samba.org 
> >[mailto:samba-bounces+louis=van-belle.nl at lists.samba.org] 
> >Namens Mark Rutherford
> >Verzonden: woensdag 29 maart 2006 16:45
> >Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
> >Onderwerp: [Samba] domain controller cannot be contacted
> >
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >I have struggled with this problem for awhile now. randomly and 
> >intermittently a workstation or
> >bunch of workstations will not be able to log in.
> >
> >This is pretty much reproduceable at will, and here is what 
> >you need to 
> >do to get this little issue to show up:
> >1. Log out and try to log in as a different user
> >2. Attempt to login immediately after the machine is booted.
> >
> >To ensure you can log in, if you boot your workstation in the morning 
> >and wait 2-3 minutes before trying to log in
> >you can log in no problem.
> >
> >I have replaced our switch, cabling, network cards, tried many many 
> >things......
> >I took this a step further. I got 3 machines rounded up and 
> >built a mini 
> >network with its own switch.
> >Only these 3 machines were on this switch.
> >Of these 3 machines I installed a fresh copy of windows xp with sp2 on 
> >two of them.
> >Took our current config and slapped it onto the third machine running 
> >gentoo + samba
> >
> >These 3 machines had not been exposed to our main network...
> >what makes this all so interesting..... I was able to join these 2 
> >workstations no problem with
> >default settings, no registry patches, nothing and it just worked.
> >
> >I tried to reproduce this problem with this little test 
> >network and our 
> >smb.conf for hours on end.
> >It just never happened.
> >
> >On our main network I can get this to occur every 2 minutes if 
> >I wanted to.
> >Our samba machine is doing wins as well, and the machines get 
> >this wins 
> >server info with their dhcp info.
> >
> >
> >Any ideas? Anything at all? This issue is...... just too hard to me to 
> >figure out.
> >Also, no indication of an error in any logs.
> >
> >
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