On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 00:15 -0700, Jonathan Johnson wrote: > Ryan Verner wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 09:55 +1000, ashley maher wrote: > > > > > I have a samba 3 install with 14 new xp pro clients. > > > > > > 13 of these I was able to join to the domain without any problems. (ie > > > create machine accounts) > > > > > > The 14th required a warranty repair and I went to put it onto the domain > > > recently (several weeks intervening). > > > > > > > Tried removing the machine account from the Samba server, changing the > > XP client's computer name to something else, etc? > > > I had a similar problem yesterday with a Windows XP Pro x64 (64-bit, > based on Server 2003 kernel, I think) system. It seemed to be looking > for a listing of the domain controller in DNS (even though my Samba > server is performing WINS and TCP/IP on the workstation specified the > Samba server as a WINS server), for which bind on my Linux/Samba > server does not have the Active-Directory style entries that would > include DC entries. So with only one half-tested example to go by, it > seems that the latest incarnations of Windows ignore WINS and only > care about AD-integrated DNS, at least when trying to join a domain. > It's nice of Microsoft to go toward standards; unfortunately they also > "embrace, extend, extinguish." The further they go, the more DNS looks > like WINS. (How do you create AD-style entries in bind? A Google > search might be in order, I haven't looked.)
Thanks for the reply, The tcpdump results would agree with your suggestion. THat kinda scares me. Regards, Ashley -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba