I would look at the windows event log. It may be of help. Also "nbtstat -a" should show you the IP addresses for the domain , DC's and master browser. I found with both Samba and NT4 domains that using WINS helped- it shouldn't cause new problems at least.
On 08/08/12 12:17, Florian Scholz wrote: > I'm not using XP anymore.. and I meant that I applied the > http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7 stuff before adding the > computers to the domain > > 2012/8/8 Gaiseric Vandal <gaiseric.van...@gmail.com > <mailto:gaiseric.van...@gmail.com>> > > 3. If you were able to join domain and log in to your PC, then > your registry settings should not be an issue. I meant do you > have this problem with XP and Win 7 or only Win 7? > > > > On 08/08/12 12:05, Florian Scholz wrote: >> 1. Only one PDC per subnetwork (physically another town) >> 2. I don't know if I'm using WINS but I don't think so. >> 3. Yes, there are some registry settings you have to apply to >> Windows 7 to make it compatible with SAMBA 3.6 >> 4. Yes but I don't get the temporary session message :) >> 5. The X-flag isn't set. >> >> # ASTA, asta.lan >> dn: sambaDomainName=ASTA,dc=asta,dc=lan >> objectClass: top >> objectClass: sambaDomain >> objectClass: sambaUnixIdPool >> sambaDomainName: ASTA >> sambaSID: S-1-5-21-3963991337-2686100338-2601203207 >> sambaPwdHistoryLength: 0 >> sambaMaxPwdAge: -1 >> sambaLockoutThreshold: 0 >> sambaRefuseMachinePwdChange: 0 >> sambaLogonToChgPwd: 0 >> sambaMinPwdAge: 0 >> sambaForceLogoff: -1 >> sambaMinPwdLength: 4 >> sambaLockoutDuration: 30 >> sambaLockoutObservationWindow: 30 >> gidNumber: 1049 >> sambaNextRid: 1028 >> uidNumber: 1209 >> >> >> 2012/8/8 Gaiseric Vandal <gaiseric.van...@gmail.com >> <mailto:gaiseric.van...@gmail.com>> >> >> Is this a single domain controller environment (1 PDC) or do >> you also >> have one or more BDC's? >> >> Are you using WINS? that should help clients find domain >> controllers. >> >> Is there is difference between XP and Windows 7 clients? As you >> probably know, you can login to a windows machine with cached >> credentials even if it is not connected to the network. I >> found with >> Windows 7 machines sometimes you may have logged into the >> computer with >> your network account, the domain controller was not reached, >> you get >> authenticated with cached credentials and you don't know >> there is an >> issue until you try changing your password. This is more >> likely to >> happen with laptops that may get disconnected and reconnected >> from the >> network with out doing a complete shutdown 1st. >> >> >> "pdbedit -Lv username" should show you if the "X" flag is set >> for the >> user- if the "X" flag is set the user's password should >> never expire >> even if the domain policy sets a max password age. >> >> If you have an ldap browser, look at the top level >> sambaDomainObject. >> There may be a sambamaxpwdage (n seconds) param. >> >> >> On 08/08/12 06:12, Florian Scholz wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > we are using SAMBA 3.6.1-1 (updating this archlinux machine >> is tooo ugly) >> > and 3.6.6-1 on archlinux with the LDAP (Server version is >> 2.4.26-3) backend >> > and manage the users, groups and computer by using the >> smbldap-tools. >> > >> > Currently we are experiencing the following problems: >> > >> > 1. changing the passwords takes longer than 30 seconds <- >> That's bad >> > because we are using a gigabit ethernet network! >> > 2. sometimes windows tells us that the user can't change >> their passwords at >> > the current point of time >> > 3. sometimes windows foces the users to change their >> passwords (we never >> > told samba to do it!) >> > 4. sometimes windows tells us that there are no logon >> server available! >> > >> > Are there any known bugs regarding to these problems? Do >> you need further >> > information to investigate this problem? >> > >> > Florian Scholz >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and >> read the >> instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >> >> > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba