[Samba] Domain not available even minutes after workstation startup

[Abe Lau]

Thanks Gaiseric for the note.

I checked the XP Event Log, and the only error is:

Automatic certificate enrollment for local system failed to contact the
active directory (0x8007054b).  The specified domain either does not exist
or could not be contacted.  Enrollment will not be performed.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

The only suspicious entry in samba log: (I remember this could safely be
ignored)

[2010/09/01 09:10:17,  1] smbd/session.c:111(session_claim)  Re-using
invalid record


The PDC was changed to connect via two bonded gigabit connection
(balance-alb) in a mixed 1000/100 network few months ago.  Contrary to the
MS support link, we have problem with both 100Mbps and 1000Mbps connections
intermittently.

Is any way to get XP to split out detailed log when it says "domain is not
available"?

Is setting Winlogoncachedlogonscount the good way to avoid logon problem
when network is not ready during initial bootup?  According to MS, if the
domain server is not available and logon data is not cached, "domain is not
available" will occur.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc957390.aspx


Any further insight?

Abe

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Gaiseric Vandal <gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Did you check the event logs in Windows-  they may provide some additional
> info.
>
> This error sounded familiar-  most of my users are in a Samba domain, but I
> have one group that uses Windows 2003 active directory domain.  A few years
> back they had some weird issues that ended up being (possibly) related to
> the gigabit network connection.    It had been hard to trace and had only
> been affecting newer machines.
>
> I think the following link was relevant.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326152/
>
>
>
> On 08/30/2010 11:29 PM, Abe Lau wrote:
>
>> Yes, the PDC is also acting as the WINS server.  The XP workstation is
>> using WINS, set via DHCP (option netbios-name-servers <ip address of the
>> PDC>;)
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Gaiseric Vandal <
>> gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com <mailto:gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Is the PDC also a WINS server?  Are the XP workstations using WINS?
>>
>>
>>    On 08/29/2010 09:01 PM, Abe Lau wrote:
>>
>>        Hi all,
>>        I have recently experienced an intermittent problem of getting
>>        the error
>>        message of "Domain not available" at initial logon of some XP
>>        workstations
>>        connected to a Samba PDC.  The domain does not seems to be
>>        available after
>>        some time after initial bootup of the XP workstation, from a
>>        minute or two,
>>        to more than 10 minutes sometimes.
>>
>>        Is there anyway to speed up this process?  Thanks!
>>
>>        I have set HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
>>        NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogoncachedlogonscount to 0 to workaround
>>        the problem
>>        of having the logon frozen (and folders not being redirected)
>>        during initial
>>        logon when the network is not ready.
>>
>>        Abe
>>
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