mamue@lb-bbs1.emd.ni.schule.de
2003-Sep-01 09:03 UTC
[Samba] PC loosing domain membership frequently
Hi, I'm new to this list. I tried to google and did a _bit_ of searching in teh archive but didn't find anything related to my problem. I use samba 2.2.8a as the PDC on SuSE-linux 8.0. I administrate 7 Rooms with 160 PC, mainly w2k-sp3 and some older with NT4-sp6. In two of seven rooms some PC loose their Domain-membership. I can bring them back into Domain, but they seem to loose it after a few days again. This sommer I updatet all w2k from SP0 (i.e. no ServicePack)to SP3 and installed some other software (mozilla etc). I made for each Room one Image and duplicated these to all other PC. Last year this worked without such faults (no SP, except NT4-sp6). In three out of five rooms I have no problems. In one room, all PC lost membership, but I did not have any problems again since I fixed it manually. This year I tried to bring the w2k-PC into Domain by using "wsname", a tool which can change the workstation name without leaving the Domain (I have a little wsh-script which looks up the workstaion name in DNS and fixes the computer name). May that be the reason? I checked for duplicate RID and uidNumber in my ldap, but didn't find any duplicates. are there any other limitations relating to the uidNumber and rid, I should take care of? All PC are equipped with "reborn-cards", that is, all lokal changes are undone at the next reboot (when not disabled). Could anyone give me any helpfull comment? Thanks a lot, Malte Mueller