Ok, I'm stumped.
Last week domain logons worked.
Now when I try to logon, I get a message, "You could not logon because the SJSA domain is not available.


I've had this happen before when the trust account between the client and server was out of sync (restored a disk image that had a different trust account password)

To fix this, it has been sufficient to quit the domain, reset the password for the machine account, and rejoin the domain.
If I do this, I get a new message:
"The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted"

If I log in as a local user, I can map network shares with no problem.

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Had an idea to test, and now have some more info.

I've recently had problems with a network worm.  Part of my
plan is to minimize broadcast traffic, and create a situation where the clients can't see each other at all.

To this effect I used f-secure to block all tcp traffic to 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.239, which corresponds to my client space. This part seems to work.

The rule that got me was I tried to block 192.168.1.255 -- the broadcast address, thinking that if the clients couldn't do broadcasts, they wouldn't be able to find each other.

My server is set up with wins support = yes
with name resolution order of lmhosts (which has the names of my servers) dns hosts, but no broadcast.

At first I thought that without broadcast, it couldn't send arp requests, but arps are ether broadcasts, not tcp. And if the profile was cached, then logons worked, and browsing worked.

So finally my questions:

1. Why does stopping ip broadcasts break domain logons, but not browsing shares?

2. What changes can I make to my setup to further inhibit client to client communication?
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