[Samba] Samba + LDAP + displayName attribute

Gavin Henry gavin.henry at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 23:08:46 GMT 2007


On 23/08/07, Didster <didster at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> I haven't had any other responses to this :o( So I will try and a read
> though the archives [i did this before posting, but again wont hurt]
>
> Its driving me mad!

Have you got nscd on?

>
> On 8/21/07, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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
> >
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