Topic: Win XP logon

[bill roy]

I am trying to log onto the e-smith machine from a computer running Win XP. I can join the domain fine. I get the message welcome to the domain. Then when I restart the computer, at the log on screen, I enter my user name and password and there is a message that says the domain cannot be reached. any suggestions.

[Tony Zetterstrom]

What version of Samba do you use?
In the domain-field you must write the same as you defined workgroup in Samba.

[bill roy]

I do not have a problem joining the domain. the problem is logging onto it after the first restart of my pc. I have samba 2.2.1.

[Tony Zetterstrom]

I followed this Howto and it worked find on my server...
http://www.netsourced.com/servers/docs/samba-upgrade-howto.html

[bill roy]

I am probably not making myself clear enough. I am able to join and log onto the domain from any win 98/ME machine and any WinNT/2000. Everything works great. Now I have a WinXP machine and I can join the domain but when I restart the machine it cannot find the domain. But all the other machines can. This is probably not the forum for this question, but I thought I would give it a shot. thanks.

[Tyrone Miles]

The problem is that Microsoft changed the way that XP sends passwords to other machines and some of the RPC calls. If you check the Samba.org site you will see that they have not put out a version of samba the works correctly with XP yet.

[Rob Hillis]

Tyrone Miles wrote:

> The problem is that Microsoft changed the way that XP sends
> passwords to other machines and some of the RPC calls. If you
> check the Samba.org site you will see that they have not put
> out a version of samba the works correctly with XP yet.

Doesn't it smell a touch suspicious that *every* time a new service pack or version of Windoze appears that it breaks Samba?  Remind anyone of Lotus Notes, perhaps?