This too would be a good candidate for samba wiki http://wiki.samba.org since it comes up often.
Craig On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 16:56 +0200, Louis van Belle wrote: > You know "User Hive Cleanup Service for XP, if not install it. > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B286E6D-8912-4E18- > B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en > > > I experienced problemen with loggin's because some programs > badly closes the registry, of a old connection with samba stays > open. > > Louis > > > >-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > >Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Namens Mark Rutherford > >Verzonden: woensdag 29 maart 2006 16:45 > >Aan: [email protected] > >Onderwerp: [Samba] domain controller cannot be contacted > > > >Hi everyone, > > > >I have struggled with this problem for awhile now. randomly and > >intermittently a workstation or > >bunch of workstations will not be able to log in. > > > >This is pretty much reproduceable at will, and here is what > >you need to > >do to get this little issue to show up: > >1. Log out and try to log in as a different user > >2. Attempt to login immediately after the machine is booted. > > > >To ensure you can log in, if you boot your workstation in the morning > >and wait 2-3 minutes before trying to log in > >you can log in no problem. > > > >I have replaced our switch, cabling, network cards, tried many many > >things...... > >I took this a step further. I got 3 machines rounded up and > >built a mini > >network with its own switch. > >Only these 3 machines were on this switch. > >Of these 3 machines I installed a fresh copy of windows xp with sp2 on > >two of them. > >Took our current config and slapped it onto the third machine running > >gentoo + samba > > > >These 3 machines had not been exposed to our main network... > >what makes this all so interesting..... I was able to join these 2 > >workstations no problem with > >default settings, no registry patches, nothing and it just worked. > > > >I tried to reproduce this problem with this little test > >network and our > >smb.conf for hours on end. > >It just never happened. > > > >On our main network I can get this to occur every 2 minutes if > >I wanted to. > >Our samba machine is doing wins as well, and the machines get > >this wins > >server info with their dhcp info. > > > > > >Any ideas? Anything at all? This issue is...... just too hard to me to > >figure out. > >Also, no indication of an error in any logs. > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > >instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
