[Samba] Samba + LDAP + displayName attribute

[John Drescher]

> When signing into Window XP, everything works fine.  Clicking on the
> start menu shows whatever is set in displayName at the top as the
> persons name.
>
> However, after an as yet undetermined amount of time [about 20 mins],
> it switches to displaying the UID.  So at the top of the start menu it
> will say "Joe Bloggs" for 20 minutes [ish], then switch to showing
> "bloggsjoe"
>
> Just wondering if anyone knows what is causing this?  I know it's not
> critical, XP is still enable to authenticate after this amount of
> time, but there could be other things going on that are not so
> visible.
>
I don't know but I do remember seeing this on the samba-users list a
few months back. Not sure when as I read a lot of posts on this
list...

John