Samba Pdc And Xp Client Problems

[Captain-Insano]

Anyone else have this problem. Got my linux Redhat 8 machine running as a pdc. The first time i joined the domain everything went ok. I rebooted and was able to load my profile. However just to check things out i rebooted to make sure my profile was saved. When i rebooted i got this error "Windows cannot copy file \\orion\profiles\root\Cookies\index.dat to location C:\Documents and Settings\rootCookies\index.dat. Possible causes of this error include network problems and or insufficient security rights. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator." Does anybody have any idea what could cause this? Also when i first logged on it said that i didn't have administrator priviledges. How do i set my samba acounts so I have administrator privledges on my XP clients? Thanks in advance.

[SigTau66]

I can only answer the second part of your question. Before you computer was joined to the domain, you had a local account on the machine that was in the administrators group. Now that you joined the domain, that is a completely DIFFERENT account when XP looks at it. So you have to add that account to the administrators group in XP. The account you need to add is in this format:

domain\domain_account

So let's say you have a domain named "COOL" and you login with the account "cat".

You would have to add "COOL\cat" to the administrators group for you to have administrator rights on the machine when logging into the domain.

I'll assume you know how to do that on the XP machine.

As for the 1st question, I get that sometimes with my Samba PDC and the only thing that I can do to make it not do it is wait a few seconds at the login screen before actually logging in. I doubt that is a real solution, so I'll let someone else who has had more experience with answer that question.

Thanks,

Shane

[Captain-Insano]

Thanks Shane I will check when i get home.