samba - Oct 2011 - How to alter domain name in Windows logon cache

Hello,

I am faced with the exact same problem described here:

http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-October/144077.html

Viz my server is out of order and nobody (except one lucky user) can 
open his session from the Windows cache.

I am quite sure that the problem resides in the domain name being wrong 
within the account (the server BIOS name instead of the domain name).

The server is down (hardware fault) and therefore pdebedit -I <domain> 
<user> is not accessible.

Is there a way to hack the Windows cache (registry ?) to alter that 
field in order to allow the user to open its session and recover his / 
her "My documents" ?

Many thanks

XP or Win 7?

Can they login specifying the SERVER name in the from field?  Or may 
login as "SERVER\username."


I had something a little weird with Win 7 clients where they 
occasionally had problems logging in offline with domain credentials.  
(This happended if they did hibernate instead of a shutdown before 
disconnecting from the LAN.)     They would be able to login specifying 
the server name instead of the domain name.   I belive the SID for all 
the DC's is the same anyway.


I had 3 domain controllers at the time  - Alpha, Gamma , Zeta.    the 
domain name was Beta.  Those aren't actually the names BUT the 
alphabetical order was the same.  An offline Win 7 user if unable to 
login as BETA\username might be able to login as ALPHA\username.



On 10/19/2011 12:59 PM, Marc Recht? wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am faced with the exact same problem described here:
>
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-October/144077.html
>
> Viz my server is out of order and nobody (except one lucky user) can 
> open his session from the Windows cache.
>
> I am quite sure that the problem resides in the domain name being 
> wrong within the account (the server BIOS name instead of the domain 
> name).
>
> The server is down (hardware fault) and therefore pdebedit -I
<domain>
> <user> is not accessible.
>
> Is there a way to hack the Windows cache (registry ?) to alter that 
> field in order to allow the user to open its session and recover his / 
> her "My documents" ?
>
> Many thanks
>