samba - Feb 2009 - Disappearing user name

I have a PDC with CentOS + Samba 3.2.7 + LDAP serving a network of 
Windows XP workstations. Everything is working very fast and smooth but 
the following happens:

A user such as "John Smith" with username "john" normally
appears as
"John Smith" under Windows XP, as can be seen when we press the Star 
menu button.
But sometimes a user logs on to the domain and the user name does not 
expand from the login name to the full name.
It also happens that the full name appears and then after a while, on 
the same session, only the login name appears.

The complete name "John Smith" is present in LDAP, both under
"cn" and
"displayName". (I noticed that Windows User Manager creates the full 
name under "cn".)

Everything is working very well but it worries me that this could be a 
sign of a misconfiguration or mis function somewhere.
Any hints?

Thank you.

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Miguel Medalha <miguelmedalha@sapo.pt>
wrote:
> I have a PDC with CentOS + Samba 3.2.7 + LDAP serving a network of Windows
> XP workstations. Everything is working very fast and smooth but the
> following happens:
>
> A user such as "John Smith" with username "john"
normally appears as "John
> Smith" under Windows XP, as can be seen when we press the Star menu
button.
> But sometimes a user logs on to the domain and the user name does not
expand
> from the login name to the full name.
> It also happens that the full name appears and then after a while, on the
> same session, only the login name appears.
>
> The complete name "John Smith" is present in LDAP, both under
"cn" and
> "displayName". (I noticed that Windows User Manager creates the
full name
> under "cn".)
>
> Everything is working very well but it worries me that this could be a sign
> of a misconfiguration or mis function somewhere.
> Any hints?
>
I believe this was supposed to be a bug in smbldap-tools however with
the latest release of that I still get that. It's no biggie though.

John

While attempting to configure my (working) Fedora DS installation to work
with Samba 4, I came across the following error:
root@host/usr/share/samba# setup-ds
--file=/var/lib/samba/private/ldap/fedorads.inf
--snip--
Could not import LDIF file 'suggest'.  Error: 256.  Output: importing
data
...
suggest file could not be opened: absolute path  required.
[03/Feb/2009:11:48:01 -0600] dse - The entry cn=schema in file
/var/lib/samba/private/ldap/slapd-samba4/schema/99_ad.ldif is invalid,
error code 21 (Invalid syntax) - attribute type serialNumber: Unknown
attribute syntax OID "1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.44"
[03/Feb/2009:11:48:01 -0600] dse - Please edit the file to correct the
reported problems and then restart the server.

Error: Could not create directory server instance 'samba4'.
Exiting . . .

I used this command to generate the fedorads.inf file:
/usr/share/samba/setup/provision-backend --realm=domain.net
--domain=domain --ldap-backend-port=9830 --ldap-admin-pass=<pass>
--ldap-backend-type=fedora-ds  --server-role='domain controller'

Any idea why this does not work?

Thank you,

Timothy Pearson