Doug Coats wrote: >> >> >> I do think that I have hit upon an issue. The WINS data for samba is >> kept in /var/cache/samba.dat but it is updated dynamically with nmdb. It has >> dated data. When I moved the server I changed the server name slightly >> and so the WINS data points to the old name at the current IP. In fact with >> this network rebuild I changed most of my computer names and they are >> all incorrect. I think I need to shut down all three instances of samba >> clear the wins data and then start them all again so that they populate from >> scratch. > > Correction to that. Only the WINS server has data in this location. Um, does a timing issue come into play here? If the local clock is not within a few seconds, we can't connect to AD (we are going through kerborous). Is there time data in the cache? mark