XP not caching domain info from 10.4 PDC

[manmurray]

Hi,

We’re running 10.4.3 server quite happily with mixture of XP/Tiger workstations. Authentication and remote homes are working fine and life is good.

But:- we have a small number of XP laptops. When they’re out of the office/the wifi breaks and they try to login, they’re getting “domain unavailable” errors. The only way to get access to the machine is to log in as a local user as a short term fix. As soon as there’s a network connection again, everything works fine.

Anybody come across anything similar/have any suggestions? It’s quite frustrating!

Thanks in advance!

[manmurray]

Sorted it through a Google search for similar issues with Samba.

Our users were logging in with a username of firstname.surname, which gets translated by 10.4 into their shortname – ie firstnamesurname.

Enter the version with the stop and Windows won’t cache, enter the shortname direct and it caches correctly, allowing logins regardless of network connection.

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