samba - Jan 2004 - The system cannot log you on now becuase the domain iis unavailable on XP Pro.

Yes I am using XP Pro. I have joined the XP machine to the domain
successfully. I am running Samba 2.27 on RHL 9. Whenever I log on to the
machine and attempt a domain logon, I am told that the domain is
unavailable. I have searched google many times with many permutations and
have not found an accurate solution to this problem. I have Win95 and 98
machines which log on without any trouble. It's only the XP machine that
fails. I am using PAM authorization and have disabled encrypted passwords on
XP.

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:47:39PM -0600, Jeffery Cox
wrote:
> Yes I am using XP Pro. I have joined the XP machine to the domain
> successfully. I am running Samba 2.27 on RHL 9. Whenever I log on to the
> machine and attempt a domain logon, I am told that the domain is
> unavailable. I have searched google many times with many permutations and
> have not found an accurate solution to this problem. I have Win95 and 98
> machines which log on without any trouble. It's only the XP machine
that
> fails. I am using PAM authorization and have disabled encrypted passwords
on
> XP.
Plaintext passwords are incompatible with domain logons.  Win9X is an
exception because it doesn't really join the domain.

Upgrade to Samba 3.0 (avoids registry patches on WinXP) and turn on
encrypted passwords.

Andrew Bartlett