On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 21:57, Ed Ravin wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:19:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I had expected a simple error message telling me I can\'t use > > the servers profile but the error message I receive is: > > \"The system cannot log you on now because the domain xxx is not > > available.\" > > I just encountered this problem on a Windows XP laptop. It had something > to do with the way they store the name of the domain as a DNS name. The > laptop was formerly a member of a domain run by a Win2K box that had been > migrated to Samba with "net rpc vampire", and the sniffer showed that after > logging in to the Samba box, it would start looking for the the old Windows > box that used to be the PDC, starting out by doing a SRV record DNS lookup > for the "domain.example.com" (i.e. FQDN) name, hunting for LDAP servers > and Active Directory. > > The fix in this case turned out to be to join a workgroup (i.e. leave the > domain, which deleted the domain information), then re-join the domain. ---- just for the record - the net rpc vampire should have moved the machine accounts properly. I've seen it, it does work. When it fails, it's usually because of some slip up in the procedure - which is easy since it's not a process most people are likely to repeat. In my case, since I had a perfectly serviceable PDC in WinNT 4, I kept repeating the process to get it right.
Anway, you should be able to simply 're-join' the domain and not join a workgroup (i.e. - leave the domain) and not imperil users profiles. Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba