Terry Wood
2004-Jul-30 16:22 UTC
[Samba] workstation service failing on Windows XP (Samba + LDAP)
Greetings, I am having problems with about 80% of my Windows XP machines that are connected to a PDC. The PDC is running Fedora Core 2, Samba 3.0.3-5, openldap 2.1.29-1 ***, and kernel 2.6.5-1.358. The XPs that don't work are all very new machines and I am guessing that they are running a different version of XP than the ones that do work. All of the Win98 machines I have connected to the PDC work without any problems. Whenever the troublesome XPs successfully authenticate to the PDC, the workstation service (a.k.a. svchost.exe) dies. This closes the connection to the PDC (no drives can be mapped, roaming profiles cannot be found, etc). I can manually restart the workstation service, log off, then log back in and everything works fine until the XP machine is rebooted. Searching the internet, I have concluded that this is either a Samba bug or an ldap misconfiguration (or both) combined with the usual Microsoft crud. My question is : Is there a newer version of samba or a hotfix for XP that will correct this? If it is a ldap misconfiguration, can someone guide through a unmisconfiguration :) ? I am willing to post my smb.conf, any ldap conf file, and any more info upon request. I greatly appreciate anyone who helps. Thank You, Terry Wood