samba - Oct 2007 - Samba as PDC with XP Client - Logon requires reboot - Help Please

Hi, I'm running the latest version of Samba with a tdbsam backend,
configured not to use roaming profiles. Two different XP clients (SP2)
are joined to the domain ok but users can only logon by rebooting before
entering their logon details.  When users logoff and try to logon again
(or logon as a different user on the same machine) they get the standard
message 'windows cannot connect to the domain either because the domain
controller is down or because your computer account was not found.
Please try again later .. ' etc.  Have tried fiddling with registry
entries and permissions but can't get this problem to go away.  Any
ideas on this would be appreciated. Cheers.

Ron Segal wrote:
> Hi, I'm running the latest version of Samba with a tdbsam backend,
> configured not to use roaming profiles. Two different XP clients (SP2)
> are joined to the domain ok but users can only logon by rebooting before
> entering their logon details.  When users logoff and try to logon again
> (or logon as a different user on the same machine) they get the standard
> message 'windows cannot connect to the domain either because the domain
> controller is down or because your computer account was not found.
> Please try again later .. ' etc.  Have tried fiddling with registry
> entries and permissions but can't get this problem to go away.  Any
> ideas on this would be appreciated. Cheers.
>   
Have you checked your netlogon and/or profiles Unix permissions? You 
generally need to set them very, very loose and let Samba handle the 
security.

Ron Segal escreveu:
> Hi, I'm running the latest version of Samba with a tdbsam backend,
> configured not to use roaming profiles. Two different XP clients (SP2)
> are joined to the domain ok but users can only logon by rebooting before
> entering their logon details.  When users logoff and try to logon again
> (or logon as a different user on the same machine) they get the standard
> message 'windows cannot connect to the domain either because the domain
> controller is down or because your computer account was not found.
> Please try again later .. ' etc.  Have tried fiddling with registry
> entries and permissions but can't get this problem to go away.  Any
> ideas on this would be appreciated. Cheers.
Would help if you post your smb.conf and give a little more information 
about your network (if it is really only these 3 machines and you want 
the samba server be a PDC of a little domain), and about how did you 
joined the workstations.


Regards.

Edmundo Valle Neto