samba - Sep 1997 - Domain Logons Gotcha!

Hi,

I just thought I'd let everyone know that I recently experienced the
following problem when trying to implement Domain Logon's with Samba.  I
followed all of the instructions in the help file 'Domain.txt' but when
I
tried to connect using my Win 95 client I got the following error message:
Microsoft Networking 'Incorrect Parameter'.

To cut a long story short this error was caused because our Domain Name was
the same as our Samba Server Name.  Changing either one of these names
solved the problem.  I don't think I've seen this one documented
anywhere.

Can you have the same Domain/Server names or is this a bug?

Cheers

Andy

> I got the following error message:
> Microsoft Networking 'Incorrect Parameter'.
> 
> To cut a long story short this error was caused because our Domain Name was
> the same as our Samba Server Name.  Changing either one of these names
> solved the problem.  I don't think I've seen this one documented
anywhere.
I ran into this because I tried to set our LANMAN domain name to equal our
DNS domain.  Our samba server is not the host with that address.  This
bulloxed things up because Win95 would see the periods in the name,
consult DNS before checking WINS, and then try to connect to the wrong
machine. 

Changing the WINS name of the domain solved the problem.

	Eric B.