samba - Oct 2006 - I have to keep removing and readding systems to my domain:

Hello,
 
I am new to this list, and I would like to search the archives for existing
information on my issue.  Could someone point me to a good news reader and
the settings to use it on the archives?
 
 
Issue:  I have to keep removing and readding systems to my domain:
 
I have a FreeBSD (4.2) back end running samba-2.2.8a
 
 
At the end/beginning of each month a lot of my Windows XP (sp2) clients have
to be removed from the domain and then readded.  I cannot isolate why this
is happening, and it is driving me crazy...
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Thanx,
 
Bruce


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Hi,
>>>Could someone point me to a good news reader and ould someone point
me to
a good news reader andthe settings to use it on the archives? the settings
to use it on the archives?

Lately I have become a huge fan of Mozilla products. So even though there
are plenty of news readers viz. Netscape, Outlook express etc. I suggest you
download Mozilla Thunderbird from http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ or
http://getthunderbird.com (both should take you to the same location.

After installing go to the Manage my accounts provide the below details

servername:    news.gmane.org
port 119

give any name for the account and in the "show items that contain" box
enter
"samba", "cifs" etc. and this provides you various newsgroup
as below where
you can download.

gmane.network.samba.general
gmane.network.samba.cvs
gmane.network.samba.internals
>>>> I have a FreeBSD (4.2) back end running samba-2.2.8a
Please install the latest version i.e. available i.e. 3.0.23c from samba.org.
Huge number of problems have been solved in the latest releases. You will
also get lot of features with the new releases.

-- 
HTH
Aravinda
(Views expressed here are my personal opinion ONLY)

I am having what I consider to be very strange problems with my users
running XP clients with my samba 3.0.23c domain controller.  Here is the
situation as best as I can describe:

I have a network with 5 users, call them 1-5, with 5 computers call them A-E
where user 1 typically uses computer A, 2B, 3C and so on.  When I initially
configured everything all was well.  Everyone could logon to the domain view
their files etc.  Slowly over time, users have become unable to logon to the
domain in various ways.  For example, two of my users can no longer logon to
the domain from their own computers but they can logon from other computers,
so the problem does not seem to be with their domain account. So, while 1
can no longer logon from A, she can logon from B.  The strange thing is that
user 3 can logon from A, so the problem does not seem to be computer A.  In
any case, if I give user 1 a local account on computer A, she can
successfully connect to all of her network shares by mapping a network
drive.  There seems to be some subtle problem with the combination of user 1
on computer A that is preventing her from logging in successfully.

Through all of this I have changed nothing on the samba server so I tend to
believe that something has gone wrong on the client side.  Has anyone ever
experienced anything remotely resembling this?

Thanks,

Chris

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Bruce Ballou wrote:
> Hello,
> Issue:  I have to keep removing and readding systems to my domain:
>
> I have a FreeBSD (4.2) back end running samba-2.2.8a
>
>
> At the end/beginning of each month a lot of my Windows XP (sp2) clients
have
> to be removed from the domain and then readded.  I cannot isolate why this
> is happening, and it is driving me crazy...
I have been running Samba-2.x and 3.x on FreeBSD 4.x , 5.x and 
6.1 with WinNT4, Win2k and WinXP clients and never seen anything 
like that.
- Perhaps your server hardware is growing old? (Defect CPU fans,
   system clocks cause extremly strange problems, not to talk about bad
   NICS)
- Perhaps one of your switches/routers is defect? (Everything
   including a complete freeze of the server might happen. Do
   your clients perhaps hang on the same switch?)

This might be a good chance for you to acquire/test/setup some 
new Hardware :-)

Regards,

Uli.


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