[Samba] Windows 7 + Samba 3.5.6 = abject misery...

[Steve Holdoway]

On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 13:54 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 09:53 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> > Can anyone help with this? I set it all up a few months ago, the samba
> > side being standard upgrades via debian - configured as a PDC, and the
> > windows 7 clients being clean installs, with the standard
> > lanmanworkstation regedits done.
> > 
> > They've been working fine since then, but have now started failing,
> > instead raising the error message
> > 
> >  'The trust relationship between this work station and the primary
> > domain has failed'
> > 
> > on the client.
> > 
> > Any suggestions??
> 
> One different avenue you might persue is upgrading to Samba 4.0 as an AD
> DC.  This will bring Windows 7 back to a server it is much happier with
> than the current situation.
> 
> Or at the very least, consider upgrading the domain as-is to Samba 4.0,
> running it as a classic DC.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 

This is a local charity that I support in my spare (non-existant!) time.
I'm offsite at the moment, but received this message...

"When Cath tried to logon today she got this message:

There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon
request

I have done a small experiment, I can logon as Dawn or Bill on Bill's
computer and switch between them but I can't logon as Cath  (get the
lack of trust message). On Cath's computer I can't logon as anyone.  On
Bill's computer I logged in as Bill then went to Dawn's computer and
tried to logon as Dawn and got the no logon servers message."

How on earth has a simple domain been working ok for years, and now end
up in this mess?

Is there a simple way to just reset the server-side information so
everyone starts with a clean sheet?

Steve

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