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Hi, does anybody know how I can lock down an samba domain account after a certain amount of failed logins? I thought I heard that this issue will be solved with Samba 3? Thanks a lot and best regards Martin Miethe

...d if there is another possibility to achieve this more efficiently without buying an expensive deployment software for Windows Server or something like that. So far I did not have a closer look at unattended.sourceforge.net, maybe someone has experience with that. Thanks a lot regards -- Martin Miethe

Hi, my question no really concerns 100% to Samba but since I use Samba ... I use Samba 3.0.13 as an PDC and have about 40 WinXp Pro Clients. I was wondering what happens if the WinXP Pro Clients won?t have any connection to the Samba Server anymore. Maybye due an error in the network or the PDC died for some reason. Is there any way to quickly change the clients profile to a local profile? I

Hi Newsgroup, I use SAMBA as PDC with MS Terminal Server 2K3. I dont use LDAP. For backing up the domain accounts, I secure /etc/samba on daily base. Yesterday I made a test: I set up a new machine with Samba and copied my backup /etc/samba (1 day old) to the new machine - Samba started just fine. But now, most of the users could not login to the Terminal Server (but some were able to)! The

Hi all I recently built a samba box to try and straighten up a nasty setup that my predecessors had running. The old setup was a Win2k box running AD, which I know very little about. All of the clients are running WinXP; some of them were authenticating via the Win2k box, some were just using local accounts. In either case, all files were being stored on the client machines, the server was