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

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 10:53 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> 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?

Could it be that the server really is offline or not responding to logon
requests, and the logins which 'work' are from the local cache?

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org