[K12OSN] XP Client Authentication woes

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 07:19, Joe Faletra wrote:
> I have a lab that is on a windows 2000 domain called spdc-ctrl.  In SME
> I told the box to be a domain controller and gave it a workgroup name
> of SPDC-CTRL.
> 
> The clietns error out with no domain controller available.  We
> "disconnect" all of the 2000 servers when using the "linux" setup (the
> servers are on a sperate switch and we just disconnect all the clients
> and plug them in to the linux server switch)
> 
> Any ideas?  Could the XP machines be caching info?  Could I be missing
> a checkbox on SME?
> 

You need a registry change on XP clients to work with samba
as their domain controller.
http://www.ccs.uky.edu/docs/samba.htm

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  Les Mikesell
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