[Lias] WinXP with Samba PDC

[Simon Issell]

Hi All,

Hopefully someone can help with this frustrating problem, maybe I'm just doing 
something wrong.

We are running WinXP SP1 and Samba 2.2.8a. I create machine accounts for XP 
boxes as normal and then join the box to the domain, no problem. Then add a 
domain user as a local administrator, also no problem. Then, after a while, 
(usually after a reboot) the user is removed from the users list for some 
reason and can't be put back without removing the computer from the domain 
and rejoining. (Note that the user is still listed as a member of the 
administrator group, only as their unix user number, not username???!!!) 
There are so many things that just don't seem to work properly in XP if you 
are not an administrator, and this is really giving me a headache! Not all 
our XP machines have the problem either, some work fine, and I can't see 
anything different between the ones that do work and the ones that don't. I'm 
not sure exactly when this problem developed, everything used to work fine, 
it may have been when we upgraded to Samba 2.2.8a? Initially I thought it was 
a problem with the machine accounts, but now I'm not so sure. Could it be 
something to do SID's?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Simon Issell
Nambour Christian College


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