[TriLUG] Samba-3 + PDC+LDAP Question

[Marty Ferguson]

Mark Fowle wrote:

> Has anyone worked with the Samba 3/PDC+LDAP configuration?  I have a 
> configuration where I have LDAP on one server and
> samba on the other - both sides see each other, at least until I have 
> to join a windows XP machine to the domain - then it suddenly
> can't find either  root or Administrator ---  (I don't have access to 
> my smb.conf file right now, otherwise I'd post it...)   I think
> it's looking for the root entry in the smbpasswd file (which is there) 
> but I have my passdb backend setup for tdbsam ldapsam:ldap://127.0.0.1
>
> If I try to mount a share from the linux server, I can give it 
> root/password or Administrator/password and have no problems...
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
If I were to shoot from the hip and wager a guess, I would say that the 
XP machine may kicking off the
master-browser election across the SMB domain, and probably has the 
highest Master Browser "os level"

There's some GUI interface you can use on the windows boxes to block 
them from ever attempting
to start an election.  It's been quite a while, and I don't remember how 
I did it, but as I recall, I had
similar symptoms a couple of years ago, and this technique of disabling 
master-browser campaigning worked..

After all, it's windows.  Just keep experimenting untill something 
works.  But don't bother to write it down, because
the next time, the same methods won't procure the same results :)

Marty