Re: samba & WinXPsp1

[Jeff Licquia <jeff@licquia.org>]

On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 12:21, Dan Fleischer wrote:
> When I try to connect my WinXPsp1 machine I get the following error
> message:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 'A domain controller for the domain MYDOMAIN could not be contacted.'
> Details:
> The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service
> location (SRV) resource record used to locate a domain controller for
> domain MYDOMAIN:
> 
> The error was: "This operation returned because the timeout period
> expired."\par(error code 0x000005B4 ERROR_TIMEOUT)
> 
> The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.MYDOMAIN

The XP box is trying to connect to Active Directory.  You need to
convince it to connect to a NT 4 domain.

(Or use Samba TNG, which can reportedly serve Active Directory.)
-- 
Jeff Licquia <jeff@licquia.org>

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