Is this a single domain controller environment (1 PDC) or do you also have one or more BDC's?
Are you using WINS? that should help clients find domain controllers. Is there is difference between XP and Windows 7 clients? As you probably know, you can login to a windows machine with cached credentials even if it is not connected to the network. I found with Windows 7 machines sometimes you may have logged into the computer with your network account, the domain controller was not reached, you get authenticated with cached credentials and you don't know there is an issue until you try changing your password. This is more likely to happen with laptops that may get disconnected and reconnected from the network with out doing a complete shutdown 1st. "pdbedit -Lv username" should show you if the "X" flag is set for the user- if the "X" flag is set the user's password should never expire even if the domain policy sets a max password age. If you have an ldap browser, look at the top level sambaDomainObject. There may be a sambamaxpwdage (n seconds) param. On 08/08/12 06:12, Florian Scholz wrote: > Hi, > > we are using SAMBA 3.6.1-1 (updating this archlinux machine is tooo ugly) > and 3.6.6-1 on archlinux with the LDAP (Server version is 2.4.26-3) backend > and manage the users, groups and computer by using the smbldap-tools. > > Currently we are experiencing the following problems: > > 1. changing the passwords takes longer than 30 seconds <- That's bad > because we are using a gigabit ethernet network! > 2. sometimes windows tells us that the user can't change their passwords at > the current point of time > 3. sometimes windows foces the users to change their passwords (we never > told samba to do it!) > 4. sometimes windows tells us that there are no logon server available! > > Are there any known bugs regarding to these problems? Do you need further > information to investigate this problem? > > Florian Scholz > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
