[Samba] samba - xp -ad issue
Volker Lendecke
Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Thu Dec 16 11:52:48 MST 2010
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 09:38:32AM -0500, Jim Flanigan wrote:
> I have a samba 3 server connected to an windows domain.
> All connections appear correct most of the users can
> connect via windows xp with no issue. However there are a
> unlucky few whose work stations cannot connect. All xp
> work stations are the same (at least as well as a large
> company can get). The user in question have ad accounts on
> the Linux server. We use ad as the userid source and
> Kerberos authentication on the *nix machines. So user I'd
> and passwords are not the issue.
>
> The error received is that the network path is not
> available, xp takes about 5 minutes to determine that the
> path is not available. The issue does not appear to be
> location dependent. Two users seated 10 feet from each
> other one will have the issue the other will not. It
> appears as though the issue is workstation level. I have
> turned on level of debugging info but nothing obvious
> stands out.
>
> Are there an suggestions?
Probably doing network traces on the workstations is the
only way to sanely diagnose what's going on.
www.wireshark.org has the required software.
Volker
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