samba - Aug 2002 - {samba digest, Vol 1 #1475 - 26 msgs} Outlook/Express Crawling with Domains

> Message: 7
> From: "Glover George" <dime@gulfsales.com>
> Also, as a side note, maybe someone might have the answer to this as
> well.  Once I switched to a domain, the user can no longer
> open Windows
> Messenger in XP.  Is this normal?  IS there some setting I need to
> change? (i.e., is Messenger looking for an exchange server
> only when in
> domain mode or something?).
>
> Thanks in advance to any help.
>
> Glover George
Hi,

The problem with Windows Messenger could be related to the user id of
the Windows user account, as you've switched from local accounts to
domain accounts the mapping between XP uid and Messenger isn't the same
for a domain logon. Just get users to reconfigure their messenger to
login as their normal id.

On the subject of Outlook we used roaming profiles and didn't seem to
encounter the same problem - however as I changed the XP policy to force
wait for roaming profiles all our settings where loaded before XP let us
in... I'm wondering if the parts of the registry hive Outlook needs
aren't yet present and so they're grabbing them from the network.
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>  > Message: 7
> > From: "Glover George" <dime@gulfsales.com>
> > Also, as a side note, maybe someone might have the answer 
> to this as 
> > well.  Once I switched to a domain, the user can no longer open 
> > Windows Messenger in XP.  Is this normal?  IS there some setting I 
> > need to change? (i.e., is Messenger looking for an exchange server
> > only when in
> > domain mode or something?).
> >
> > Thanks in advance to any help.
> >
> > Glover George
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The problem with Windows Messenger could be related to the 
> user id of the Windows user account, as you've switched from 
> local accounts to domain accounts the mapping between XP uid 
> and Messenger isn't the same for a domain logon. Just get 
> users to reconfigure their messenger to login as their normal id.
	By reconfigure them you mean what?  The automatic login?  I
would, but it won't open.  You hear the hard drive churn away for a
second then nothing.  Windows Messenger won't even start for me to
configure anything.  How else could I fix this?
> 
> On the subject of Outlook we used roaming profiles and didn't 
> seem to encounter the same problem - however as I changed the 
> XP policy to force wait for roaming profiles all our settings 
> where loaded before XP let us in... I'm wondering if the 
> parts of the registry hive Outlook needs aren't yet present 
> and so they're grabbing them from the network.
> --
 
I mean, I really don't think it's pulling anything from the network.  I
should at least see lights flashing on the nic when its hung like this,
but it doesn't flash.  It's like Windows is waiting on something (or
samba is waiting).  I thought maybe dns stuff, but that all seems fine.
Of course I haven't set windows to use WINS.  I'll try that next, but I
am at a loss.