Are you auth-ing to your Pdc via a routed link? and do you have effectively a Bdc on your local lan with a "profile" share enabled? This had me stuffed for ages, disable profile share on Bdc "fixed" my intermittant xp-pro domain logon problem. hope this helps. regards Richard Coates.
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:07, Brian White wrote: > I'm having a problem with roaming domains on Samba v3.0-alpha21. I've > connected the machine (watertown) to the domain (precidia) via the > server (griffon). I've logged on with my userid (bcwhite) and seen > my roaming profile get created on the server upon logoff. Future logons > grab the roaming profile and everything is fine. > > However, _sometimes_ I get a window with the message: > > Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is > attempting to log you on with your local profile. > > Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you logoff. > Possible causeses of this error include network probelms or insufficient > security rights. If this problem persists, contact your network > administrator. > > DETAIL - logon failure: unknown user name or bad password > > However, the system continues to log me on (presumably with the local copy > of my profile). Upon logoff, the copy of my profile on the samba server > is not updated. > > > I know I'm using the correct password. If I try the wrong password, I get > a different window and no logon: > > The system could not log you on. Make sure your User name and domain are > correct, then type your password again. Letters in passwords must be typed > using he correct case. > > > What I don't understand is why this only happens sometimes. I rebooted > and then was able to log in fine. Log out, log in fine. Log out, log > in fails. Reboot. Log in fine, log out, log in fails every time until I > reboot again. I don't understand. > > I had logging set to level 200 and captured the following logs. > > start samba > login (fail) http://bcwhite.dhs.org/~bcwhite/log.smbd-err.gz > reboot > login (okay) http://bcwhite.dhs.org/~bcwhite/log.smbd-ok.gz > logout > login (okay) > logout > login (fail) > logout > login (fail) > [...] > reboot > login (okay) > logout > login (fail) > stop samba http://bcwhite.dhs.org/~bcwhite/log.smbd-full.gz > > Note, the log files are 72kB, 121kB, and 4.3MB (compressed), respectively. > > All help very much appreciated! > > Brian > ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > DEFN: Computer - A device designed to speed and automate errors. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
