[TriLUG] Joining an XP Workstation to a Samba PDC

Mark Fowle mark at thefowles.com
Sat Aug 16 17:59:32 EDT 2003


Not sure if this will help or not...

http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/15785.html


Mark

On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 17:48, Chris Bullock wrote:
> Maybe I should be posting on a new thread but, we are getting ready to 
> deploy a Samba PDC and we are running into a small prob with profiles.  
> We do not have enabled nor are we enabling profiles on this new PDC.  
> The Windows machines complain about not being able to find the profile 
> on the PDC.  Is there a registry hack or something that will not prompt 
> the user with this error?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Chris
> 
> Mark Fowle wrote:
> 
> >I'll try the registry settings - I didn't know about the
> >signsecurechannel setting?  Anyone know what that's used for?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 16:25, Jason Tower wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>you'll need to add machine accounts for domain logons to work properly.  
> >>this line in smb.conf makes it happen automatically:
> >>
> >>add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -s 
> >>/bin/false -M %u
> >>
> >>there are also one or two registry changes that need to be made on the 
> >>xp boxes as well:
> >>
> >>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters
> >>"requiresignorseal"=dword:00000000
> >>"signsecurechannel"=dword:00000000
> >>
> >>jason
> >>
> >>On Saturday 16 August 2003 16:09, Mark Fowle wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>I have 65 workstations, 14 that are XP workstations. The 51
> >>>workstations are NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 - These join the domain and
> >>>I can login fine.  The XP workstations however, join the domain (I
> >>>changed the "requiredsignoreal) to 1, but I can't login to the
> >>>domain. I've gone through the workstation logs and the smbd and nmbd
> >>>logs but don't see an real errors (I have samba set to log at level
> >>>3) --
> >>>
> >>>Any help would be appreciated.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>Mark
> >>>      
> >>>
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