Samba/WinXP problem

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:14:25AM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
>   Until recently, I had managed to always keep my clients who needed MS 
> at Win2k (the best MS put out, imho :p ). However, I've now got a 
> network of WinXP SP2 machines that I run on an NT4-style domain with an 
> Ubuntu/Samba3.x server.
> 
>   On most of the machines (~ dozen) everything works great. On a couple 
> machines though, for no reason I can fathom (thus this post), once the 
> machines are joined to the domain I can no longer do anything (even 
> update the virus program, Symantec AV Corporate Edition) or run Windows 
> Update. I have the domain user as a local administrator and even when I 
> log into the local machine instead of the domain as the local machine's 
> admin user I get no love. As soon as I disjoin the domain though, voila, 
> all good again.
> 
>   I don't know if this is a samba problem per se, because the files 
> effected are NOT stored on the server (ie: c:\documents and settings\all 
> users\application data\symantec\*) but roaming profiles are.
> 
>   Any other hapless admins run into this problem? Did you find a solution?

Which version of samba?

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