problems with samba as a PDC server

[Paul Furness]

Hello.

There is a small config change that you need to make on the XP machine
to make it work with a Samba domain (at least, on the version of samba I
have there is anyway). The simplest way is a small registry hack. I am
running a Samba PDC for my office, and all the PCs are authenticating
fine, but the XP ones won't work until I apply this hack to them after I
have joined the domain.

Not sure if this list will cope ok with a .reg attachment, but I've
attached the file anyhow. If you don't get it, mail me direct (off the
list) and I'll send it to you.


PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE look at the contents of this reg file before you
install it; I don't know exactly which version of XP you have and I
can't guarantee that this will necessarily work for you. Here I use XP
Pro on all the machines and they all work perfectly after this hack is
applied, even if I take them out of the domain. It might be different
for Home edition machines.

Paul.



On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 13:56, Gustavo Rahal wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am trying to configure a samba to be a PDC server on a small home 
> network. Never did it, completely newbie in this area.
> Well, I read some documentation about how to do this but it's not 
> working. From a winXP machine I can access the shares on the server. 
> WinXP prompts for the user and password and connects correctly. When 
> trying to configure XP as part of the domain I get an error: "The user 
> name could not be found". When I try to log in with a nonexisting user I 
> get a different message. When trying to connect with a normal user (not 
> set as admin on smb.conf) I get a "Access is denied" message. So it 
> seems like the users are been correctly identified by the server. I'm 
> using fedora core 1 with samba 3.0.2rc1 (upgraded in hope that would 
> work with the latest version)
> 
> Thanks
> Gustavo
> 
> Here goes my smb.conf:
> 
> [global]
>         display charset = UTF-8
>         workgroup = LONDON
>         netbios name = FEDORA
>         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>         max log size = 50
>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>         add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -g domainmac -c
>         domain logons = Yes
>         os level = 65
>         preferred master = Yes
>         domain master = Yes
>         local master = yes
>         security = user
>         admin users = matheus rahal
>         logon path = \\%N\profiles\%u
>         logon drive = H:
>         logon home = \\homeserver\%u\winprofile
>                                                                                                                               
> 
> [netlogon]
>     path = /usr/local/samba/lib/netlogon
>     writable = no
>     browsable = no
>                                                                                                                               
> 
> [profiles]
>     ; you might wish to use a different directory for your
>     ; Windows NT/2000/XP roaming profiles
>     path = /home/samba-ntprof
>     browsable = no
>     writable = yes
>     create mask = 0600
>     directory mask = 0700
>                                                                                                                               
> 
> [homes]
>         comment = Home Directories
>         writeable = yes
>         browseable = No
>                                                                                                                               
> 
> [printers]
>         comment = All Printers
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         printable = Yes
>         browseable = No
>                                                                                                                               
> 
> [dados]
>         comment = Dados
>         path = /mnt/dados
>         writeable = yes
> 
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