samba - Oct 2008 - Domain Logon Credential Caching

Folks,

This posting is made so that others who search for infromation on how to 
configure Samba for username and password caching will find it.

Samba does not control client-side password caching.

Caching of domain logon credentials is a client-side activity. There are 
registry settings on the Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Profesional 
clients that control logon credential caching.

- Click Start >Run >type gpedit.msc
- Check Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local 
Policies\Security Options
- Check "Interactive Logon: Number of Previous Logins To Cache" (if
value is
set to 0 then cached credentials is disabled)

Also check....
- Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon
- Check "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon"
(make sure
that this is either not configured or disabled) 

Please also refer to:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913485


Cheers,
John T.

Please also note that the message Gareth Cummings posted
on Thu, Oct 9, 2008 regarding my password caching issue
fixed my problem, and it was a samba problem, not a client
problem.  The DOMAIN line contained the hostname of my
samba PDC and not the domain name. Once that was changed,
password caching worked.

I will repeat the solution below.

Thanks Gareth.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008, Gareth Cummings wrote:
Do a pdbedit -Lv username and make sure that the DOMAIN
line contains the correct domain name, if it doesn't do
the following and it should fix it for you

pdbedit -i tdbsam -e smbpasswd
pdbedit -i smbpasswd -e tdbsam

Thanks,
John

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On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:45:59AM -0500, John H Terpstra
wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> This posting is made so that others who search for infromation on how to 
> configure Samba for username and password caching will find it.
> 
> Samba does not control client-side password caching.
> 
> Caching of domain logon credentials is a client-side activity. There are 
> registry settings on the Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP
Profesional
> clients that control logon credential caching.
> 
> - Click Start >Run >type gpedit.msc
> - Check Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local 
> Policies\Security Options
> - Check "Interactive Logon: Number of Previous Logins To Cache"
(if value is
> set to 0 then cached credentials is disabled)
> 
> Also check....
> - Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon
> - Check "Always wait for the network at computer startup and
logon" (make sure
> that this is either not configured or disabled) 
> 
> Please also refer to:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913485
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> John T.
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