samba - Jul 2009 - Change the OS Level of Windows

Hello,

is there a way of changing the OS Level of Windows XP? Some time ago i have seen
a strange thing. We have running 70 Windows XP Clients and we have three trusted
domains with Samba. Sometimes logons on trusted domains are very slow or doesnt
work. So i have searched and searched. I have turned one windows xp client after
one off. I have found three Windows XP Computer that makes troubles. If this
three Windows XP Clients are online, than trusted domain logins doesnt work! I
have formated those Computers and reinstalled Windows XP, now it works. So is
there a way to manipulate the "OS Level" of Windows? And why got a
Windows XP Pro client Domain Logon Requests? Strange...

Is there a way to tell the WINS Server wich PDC is responsible for a Domain?

I also have switched the OS Level to 254 to got no troubles(on Samba).
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On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Richard Lamboj<Richard.Lamboj at gmx.at>
wrote:
> is there a way of changing the OS Level of Windows XP? Some time ago i have
seen a strange thing. We have running 70 Windows XP Clients and we have three
trusted domains with Samba. Sometimes logons on trusted domains are very slow or
doesnt work. So i have searched and searched. I have turned one windows xp
client after one off. I have found three Windows XP Computer that makes
troubles. If this three Windows XP Clients are online, than trusted domain
logins doesnt work! I have formated those Computers and reinstalled Windows XP,
now it works. So is there a way to manipulate the "OS Level" of
Windows? And why got a Windows XP Pro client Domain Logon Requests? Strange...
I have experienced something like that.

One day ONE Windows XP wrongly configured (workgroup instead of domain
member) took the place of the PDC. Lots of bad things started to
happen. For example, we couldn't add machines to the domain, etc. We
have to shutdown every workstation and the server.

> Is there a way to tell the WINS Server wich PDC is responsible for a
Domain?
domain logons = yes

HTH,
Norberto

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