I am trying to configure Samba 2.2.7 as a PDC on a Mandrake 9.0 box, mainly serving Win ME clients. Every time I try to logon to my domain, I get something in the line of(Translated from danish): "No domainserver found. Windows cannot blah blah blah..." However, once logged in to Windows, I can access my home and shares, and the server shows up in the Network neighbourhood. Both the user and the client-box is registered as samba-users. WHY CAN'T WINDOWS FIND THE DANM DOMAINSERVER?? My smb.conf goes: # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) # Date: 2003/01/22 11:51:20 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = ES-NET netbios name = ES-SERVER server string = Ejstrupholm skoles sambaserver encrypt passwords = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = lpstat logon home = \\ES-SERVER\%u domain logons = Yes os level = 34 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes dns proxy = No wins support = Yes default service = global hosts allow = localhost, all printing = cups [homes] comment = Home Directories path = %H valid users = %S read only = No create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. browseable = No [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers write list = @adm root [pdf-generator] comment = PDF Generator (only valid users) path = /var/tmp printable = Yes print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf %s ~%u \\\\\\\\%L\\\\%u %m %I & [Fdrev] comment = F-drev p? ES-sambaserveren path = /F-drev read only = No guest ok = Yes [cdimages] comment = All shared CD images path = /mnt/iso guest ok = Yes [netlogon]
are the clients all pointing at the samba server for wins?> wins support = Yesbrad
Currently, I am just trying to set up one client, and this client points to the samba server as wins-server. As far as I have understood, the samba server must be a wins server, if no other wins-servers are avaliable. Does it corrupt the system if other clients point elsewhere? No other computers on my network are designated wins-servers, but - since the network is in a school - the network is a part of a larger, public(as in owned and driven by the local township) network, I am not shure what the hell is out there?? Bendt Rasmussen