samba - May 2005 - DNS Problem under Windows XP Clients

hi,

i was trying to set up a samba PDC for my small network with WindowsXP
and Linux clients, and when i think everything is ready, XP clients
complained about a missing DNS SRV record for something like
_ldap_tcp.xxx.xxx, so i added that DNS record to my DNS.. and another
error appeared: the query was successful and a SRV record was found,
and it points to the Samba PDC, but it also says there was an error
and that two things might be happening:

1. the address of the specified SRV is not anywhere, which is false, it exists.
2. the network is down or it can't contact a service at that address.

and i though it was the second case, because although the network was
up and one could contact the service host, the NMDB reports that the
domain name was truncated. here are some details of my domain and DNS
config:

domain: lan.computacion.itcr.ac.cr
(it is specified under in the workgrop directive)

that domain exists in the DNS and queries to it works fine.
there is a SRV _ldap.tc_xxmscs (something like that) record added to
the DNS pointing to the name of the samba pdc hostname, also added in
DNS.

when running nmbd, it says that "lan.computacion.itcr.ac.cr" domain
was truncated to "lan.computacion" because it was too long.

is it possible that the truncated domain might be causing the error
displayed by Windows XP clients?

what else could be causing this problem and what ways are to solve it ?


thanks.

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>i was trying to set up a samba PDC for my small network with WindowsXP
>and Linux clients, and when i think everything is ready, XP clients
>complained about a missing DNS SRV record for something like
>_ldap_tcp.xxx.xxx, so i added that DNS record to my DNS.. and another
>error appeared: the query was successful and a SRV record was found,
>and it points to the Samba PDC, but it also says there was an error
>and that two things might be happening:
>  
>
Normally you don't need the _ dns entries (there's a few different ones 
besides _ldap) in a Samba setup, they are used by AD to locate servers 
and such.  Where are these errors coming?  Event log, pop up windows, 
etc.?  This sounds a lot like the errors you would see when you are 
setting up an AD server.

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