[Lias] WinXP with Samba PDC

[Simon Issell]

We are using Slackware 9. I've had the "No mapping between account names and
security IDs was done" message as well. We're testing Samba 3 at the moment, 
hopefully this will cure the problem.

Simon Issell
Nambour Christian College

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 04:11 pm, Phil Scarratt wrote:
> Simon Issell wrote:
> > 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
>
> Can't offer much help on your problem but was wondering what distro you
> use? We use RH7.3 Samba 2.2.3a and have LOTS of problems joining
> machines to domain - the age old "No mapping between account names and
> security IDs was done". I have tried the much recommended "use lower
> case" to no avail. Up until now, have been using a demo copy of Norton
> Ghost to join the machines to the domain.
>
> Fil


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