[Samba] Workstation service failing
Greetings all, Has anyone had any problems with the workstation service failing on Windows XP boxes? My samba server is running Fedora Core 2 w/ kernel 2.6.5-1.358. Samba version is 3.0.3-5 using openldap 2.1.29-1 for authentication and roaming profiles. The workstation service dies after authentication, although authentication works. On the XP boxes, I can start the workstation service manually, log off and log back in and everythings works perfect until reboot. Any ideas? This seems to fail only on newer versions of XP... Thanks for any ideas or help Terry Wood -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Workstation service failing
If only 1 or 2 users log into that box, you can set those users up as local admins on that XP box, log in as one of the users you set up and go to Control Panel-Admin Tools-Services : open up properties of the workstation service, click on the Recovery tab and set First Failure, Second Failure, and Subsequent Failures to Restart the Service. Roaming profiles won't work, but you will have access to shares on your samba server. This will also run any logon batch files the server hands out and it will also map drives. The downside to this is that (again) Roaming profiles will not work, and it takes several minutes to log in the first time after a restart. So, while this is a horrible solution, it can be useful in some cases until this problem is solved. Out of the 8 machines that are having a problem, only 1 didn't work with this temporary solution. Joseph E. Werle wrote: I am having the same problem with one of my xp boxes. The only solution i have found is that when the machine boots you must first login to the Local Administrator Account not the domain. then you can log out and log onto the domain as a normal user. In my investigation i have found that the Computer Browser service is failing, One sugestion i have gotten is to set that service to logon to the locol administrator account. Havent tried this as of yet, I'll let you know how it works. This is a strange error because i have 2 other XP boxes running identicle copies of XP with no problems -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] workstation service failing on Windows XP (Samba + LDAP)
Greetings, I am having problems with about 80% of my Windows XP machines that are connected to a PDC. The PDC is running Fedora Core 2, Samba 3.0.3-5, openldap 2.1.29-1 ***, and kernel 2.6.5-1.358. The XPs that don't work are all very new machines and I am guessing that they are running a different version of XP than the ones that do work. All of the Win98 machines I have connected to the PDC work without any problems. Whenever the troublesome XPs successfully authenticate to the PDC, the workstation service (a.k.a. svchost.exe) dies. This closes the connection to the PDC (no drives can be mapped, roaming profiles cannot be found, etc). I can manually restart the workstation service, log off, then log back in and everything works fine until the XP machine is rebooted. Searching the internet, I have concluded that this is either a Samba bug or an ldap misconfiguration (or both) combined with the usual Microsoft crud. My question is : Is there a newer version of samba or a hotfix for XP that will correct this? If it is a ldap misconfiguration, can someone guide through a unmisconfiguration :) ? I am willing to post my smb.conf, any ldap conf file, and any more info upon request. I greatly appreciate anyone who helps. Thank You, Terry Wood -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
