Samba3 + WinXP problem

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 06:07:27PM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
>   I've got a very frustrating problem at one of my job's client's 
> networks that I administer. It seems that, come heck or high water, 
> Windows XP (SP2) insists that a domain user who is added to the local 
> machine's Administrator group will only get Guest privileges.
> 
>  This causes problems because the only way I can install software (inc. 
> updates) is to login to the local machine instead of the domain. I have 
> tried switching between tdbsam and smbpasswd backends, I have remapped 
> my groups several times... I am stumped.
> 
>   If anyone is clueful on this, I would be *very* greatful as the 
> client is getting impatient and I am feeling the pressure.
> 
> Thanks all!
> 
> Madison (who really hates all things windows... *sigh* ;) ).
> 
> PS - If it helps, I'll post my smb.conf file (or anything else 
> potentially helpful).

Which version of samba?  I know many of the more recent versions solved
a lot of problems with versions of XP.  At least that is what the
release notes/changelogs say.

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