After upgrading Samba PDC with samba3x in RHEL 5.5 the samba domain users not able to login via older Windows XP clients.

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Issue

The Samba domain users get following error when try to login via older Windows XP clients after upgrading Samba Primary Domain Controller with samba3x package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 5.

Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because the domain controller is down or 
otherwise unavailable, or because your computer account was not found. Please
try again later. If the message continues to appear, contact your administrator for assistance

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5

  • samba3x-3.3.8-0.51.el5

  • samba3x-common-3.3.8-0.51.el5
  • samba3x-winbind-3.3.8-0.51.el5

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