samba - Mar 2007 - Laptops randomly losing their domain credentials

I'm having a randomly occurring problem with some of the laptops that
we maintain. They are joined to our Samba domain (samba-3.0.14a-1).
Every once in a while when they are disconnected from the local network
they will drop their cached domain passwords and will not allow the
user to log back into the computer. It will return a domain unavailable
error until it is plugged back into the network, at which point it will
work as intended. 
	Googleing around I've found mention of this problem
but no way to resolve it. Have any of you ran into this problem and
been able to resolve it?



Thanks

Chris 

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Chris Jeter
Senior IT Technician
The World Company
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Chris Jeter wrote:
> I'm having a randomly occurring problem with some of the laptops that
> we maintain. They are joined to our Samba domain (samba-3.0.14a-1).
> Every once in a while when they are disconnected from the local network
> they will drop their cached domain passwords and will not allow the
> user to log back into the computer. It will return a domain unavailable
> error until it is plugged back into the network, at which point it will
> work as intended. 
> 	Googleing around I've found mention of this problem
> but no way to resolve it. Have any of you ran into this problem and
> been able to resolve it?
Look at the offline logon support in 3.0.23 and (improved
support) 3.0.25pre2.






cheers, jerry
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>         Googleing around I've found mention of this problem
> but no way to resolve it. Have any of you ran into this problem and
> been able to resolve it?
>
I avoid the problem by making a local account with the same username
as the domain account and I give the local account permissions on the
domain profile and them modify the link in the registry to which
profile is used for the local user. The following link describes the
process (and yes it does work on XP laptops and desktops as well)..

http://www.jsifaq.com/SF/Tips/Tip.aspx?id=0552

John