[TriLUG] Samba-3 + PDC+LDAP Question

[Mark Fowle]

Thanks - I will try that on Monday and let you know.  I know what you 
mean - I have RTFM'd everything I could find on the web and nothing
worked exactly as described unless you had the same os, kernel, 
packages, room temperature... :-)

Thanks,
Mark


Marty Ferguson wrote:

> 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