Hi Don, Yeah, the behavior you describe is what I expected but not what I'm getting. All domain UID/Password pairs authenticate fine when connected, none do when disconnected. The login credentials are not being cached, but I can't figure out why. I checked the XP group policy and the default setting to keep the last 10 logins is intact.
My setup is the same as yours, XP clients of domain with a Samba PDC. I maintain another similar system at work which works fine. I really appreciate the effort -- any other ideas? Thanks, Rob -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Samba] Can only log on to domain, not local machine Rob Feldman wrote: > Used Administrator login on XP client to grant domain users rights to log on > to client machine (such as when offline). All attempts to log on to local > machine fail authentication (error "System could not log you on. Check user > name and domain..."). Everything else works fine, including logon to domain > and synchronization of offline folders. Frustrating having all data > available offline but inaccessible because I can't log in! > > Don't know what I'm doing wrong, seems like my setup is wrong preventing XP > from getting password info properly for later use away from domain. Sorry if > this is a dopey question, but I've pored over all howtos & other resources > and am still stumped. Plenty of help available for fixing XP clients not > logging into smb domain, but none I can find if XP can't log into itself. > Have you tried just logging in with the domain login and password? XP Pro caches login credentials, so the next time a user logs in, the cached credentials can be used if for some reason the machine can't contact a domain controller. For example, I have an XP Pro machine on my desk, joined to a domain managed by a Samba server. I pulled the network cable out of that machine, then logged into it using my plain old unprivileged domain logon. Works fine, except that I can't get to my home directory out on the Samba server :-) Microsoft already did the grunt work to let your users logon to an off-network machine. Don -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
