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...nothing about the fixed delays observed of 30s and 15s. Here is part of the netlogon.log for the slow parts of a domain user with a working (small = 2.5MB) profile. The 30s gap starts at 10:05:53, and the 15s gap at 10:06:23. 05/27 10:05:51 [LOGON] SamLogon: Interactive logon of SAF\mathog from SAF04 Entered 05/27 10:05:52 [LOGON] SamLogon: Interactive logon of SAF\mathog from SAF04 Returns 0x0 05/27 10:05:52 [MISC] DsGetDcName function called: Dom:SAF Acct:(null) Flags: DS 05/27 10:05:52 [MISC] NetpDcInitializeContext: DSGETDC_VALID_FLAGS is c01ffff1 05/27 10:05:52 [MISC] NetpDcGetName: SAF:...

I am trying to automate W7 joining to our Samba domain. It works fine through the Windows GUI from the W7 workstations. However, for a script one would have to store password used for domain access, and since that is the server's root password, I really don't want to hard code that into a file. Is there a way to set (temporarily) a Samba server so that it will accept (admin/anything) as