On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:26 PM, George He <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed samba (3.0.28) on a linux box as a PDC. The networks > has about 20 windows xp professional and a few Linux (all Fedora 8). > Basically the server works OK but I have run into a few problems: > > Initially windows roaming profile was not configured. At that time, > sometimes when a user tries to log on a windows machines, it would say > "server not found" and the user wouldn't be able to logon. > > Later on, roaming profile was configured (and the user profiles are stored > on another Linux server), then sometimes when a user tries to log on a > windows, it would say the roaming profile was not found and a local profile > would be used, or sometimes it would say "your local profile can not be > found" and a temporary profile was used. Up to now, this problem can be > resolved by restarting the windows. > > Both problems do not always happen, so users can use the computers with no > problem most of the time. But it is irritating when it happens. I thought I > might have installed too much stuff on the PDC, since I checked almost all > of the optional package to be installed when Fedora 8 was installed. But the > PDC was only used for user athentication and it is not busy at all. I have > tried to increase the priority of the smb and nmb processes, but it seems to > have no effect. > > Anybody know what might have caused the problems? Any suggestion is > appreciated. >
Probably a browsing issue. Do the windows machines find the PDC using dns or wins? If wins have you added the wins server to all of the windows machines? John -- John M. Drescher -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
