[Samba] Disappearing user name

2009-02-03 Thread Miguel Medalha
I have a PDC with CentOS + Samba 3.2.7 + LDAP serving a network of Windows XP workstations. Everything is working very fast and smooth but the following happens: A user such as John Smith with username john normally appears as John Smith under Windows XP, as can be seen when we press the Star

Re: [Samba] Disappearing user name

2009-02-03 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Miguel Medalha miguelmeda...@sapo.pt wrote: I have a PDC with CentOS + Samba 3.2.7 + LDAP serving a network of Windows XP workstations. Everything is working very fast and smooth but the following happens: A user such as John Smith with username john normally

Re: [Samba] Disappearing user name

2009-02-03 Thread Miguel Medalha
I believe this was supposed to be a bug in smbldap-tools however with the latest release of that I still get that. It's no biggie though. smbldap-tools is a set of scripts that do nothing to a running account. It only works upon creating or modifying accounts. The full user's name is

Re: [Samba] Disappearing user name

2009-02-03 Thread John Drescher
I believe this was supposed to be a bug in smbldap-tools however with the latest release of that I still get that. It's no biggie though. smbldap-tools is a set of scripts that do nothing to a running account. It only works upon creating or modifying accounts. The full user's name is

Re: [Samba] Disappearing user name

2009-02-03 Thread Miguel Medalha
http://fixunix.com/samba/142062-samba-windows-xp-userid-start-menu.html Also happens with an NT 4.0 domain controller, so it might not be a Samba problem at all ;-). Well... Thank you for the link! (I still would like to have some more hints about the causes...) -- To unsubscribe