Hi. Up to date FC4 install + Fedora Directory + Samba + VMware , on HP ML150 dual 3.0G Xeons w/ 2Gb Boots as a Directory server, and then on start of X logs in as vmware user which starts a VMware only session (no window manager) and launches a 2003 terminal server. Files are served from samba on the linux host. Up till now users have been happilly using old workstations in workgroup mode with syncd passwds, no problemo. I can't see anything in smb.conf to explain this behaviour : 2003 Terminal server was built, intended to be the first genuine domain member. It happilly joined the domain, but on attempt to login, reports "Cannot log you in now because the domain <DOMNAME> is unavailable" But it is available. Or should be. Sorry, do not have the config files immediately on hand ( no remote access yet - new installation) Thought I'd throw a feeler out and see if anyone can tell me what can cause this behaviour. I read about a samba bug that caused something like this (machine accounts must be stored in the same ou as users, but this was supposedly fixed around samba 3.0.11 and I'm on 3.0.14something here.) I have smbldap-tools installed, behaviour is same manually creating machine account or letting it be created by samba. I also had trouble with WINS support throwing a bad IP address (not even inside the subnet) into the mix. No idea where that came from; Disabling WINS (don't need it yet) fixed that, but the domain not available on attempted login has me scratching my head. I also read about DNS sometimes causing this, but the FQDN for both machines my-server1.mydomain.local and my-appserver1.mydomain.local both resolve without a problem. I don't know what's wrong and am considering removing the directory and SAMBA and taking the network down to reconfigure them from scratch because somethings wack. Of note : when loggged in as local administrator, password sync'd with PDC, map some network drives, then attempt to join the machine to the domain, it will FAIL reporting that multiple connections using different credentials are a no-no. J
