samba - Mar 2004 - problem with local logon using roaming profiles

I\'ve set up a samba 3 PDC which seems to be running perfectly fine. All
workstations can log in properly and roaming profiles also works as expected.
One of the workstations, a laptop, is on the road from time to time and therefor
I naturally disconnected it from the network and did a routine logon to the
domain i had setup before releasing it into the wild again. The logon failed...

I had expected a simple error message telling me I can\'t use the servers
profile but the error message I receive is:
\"The system cannot log you on now because the domain xxx is not
available.\"

I\'ve tried the same procedure on several workstations and get the same
result on all but one (which btw seems perfectly oblivious to the other
workstations problem with the task).

I\'ve also checked the local policy settings in Windows to make sure the
cached logons setting is > 0, and indeed it\'s set to the default 10.

I\'ve checked around for anyone having the same problem but can\'t seem
to find it. If there are anyone out there that have any advice at all I\'d
be very grateful!

/j

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:19, lists@wd.nu wrote:
> I\'ve set up a samba 3 PDC which seems to be running perfectly fine.
All workstations can log in properly and roaming profiles also works as
expected. One of the workstations, a laptop, is on the road from time to time
and therefor I naturally disconnected it from the network and did a routine
logon to the domain i had setup before releasing it into the wild again. The
logon failed...
> 
> I had expected a simple error message telling me I can\'t use the
servers profile but the error message I receive is:
> \"The system cannot log you on now because the domain xxx is not
available.\"
> 
> I\'ve tried the same procedure on several workstations and get the same
result on all but one (which btw seems perfectly oblivious to the other
workstations problem with the task).
> 
> I\'ve also checked the local policy settings in Windows to make sure
the cached logons setting is > 0, and indeed it\'s set to the default 10.
> 
> I\'ve checked around for anyone having the same problem but can\'t
seem to find it. If there are anyone out there that have any advice at all
I\'d be very grateful!
> 
---
best to check your logs on the samba machine. On my system, they're in
/var/log/samba/log.netbios_name_of_machine

Craig

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:19:17PM +0100, lists@wd.nu
wrote:
> 
> I had expected a simple error message telling me I can\'t use
> the servers profile but the error message I receive is:
> \"The system cannot log you on now because the domain xxx is not
> available.\"
I just encountered this problem on a Windows XP laptop.  It had something
to do with the way they store the name of the domain as a DNS name. The
laptop was formerly a member of a domain run by a Win2K box that had been
migrated to Samba with "net rpc vampire", and the sniffer showed that
after
logging in to the Samba box, it would start looking for the the old Windows
box that used to be the PDC, starting out by doing a SRV record DNS lookup
for the "domain.example.com" (i.e. FQDN) name, hunting for LDAP
servers
and Active Directory.

The fix in this case turned out to be to join a workgroup (i.e. leave the
domain, which deleted the domain information), then re-join the domain.