On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Tom Hudak wrote: > I recently ran into a serious issue with the way outlook does a number of > things. (This may in part be w2k's fault as well.) > > Recently after downgrading our samba PDC from 2.2.1a to 2.2.0, outlook no > longer runs for users. After the downgrade went in place, the w2k machines > lost their trust accounts and needed to be re-added to the domain. This > includes the users on that box. (Which are assigned a completely unique ID > every single time they are added, whether it's the same user or not.) Why would you want to downgrade to Samba 2.2.0? 2.2.1a fixes a LOT of stuff. > My only conclusion is that in re-establishing the trust account and re-adding > the users, outlook no longer runs, with an all-to-informational error of > "Cannot start microsoft outlook" and nothing more. I think that some registry > setting is expecting a different UID than it's receiving upon execution of > Outlook by the newly re-added user. This has the side effect of not being able > to run Outlook in any way by that user, on that workstation. > > If anyone has run into this problem, I would be very interested in finding out > what you did, until then I'll be scouring registry entries for anything > dealing with a uid or outlook, and playing until it works again. (No, not even > a re-install seems to do the trick.) > > I'm very disturbed that this behavior exists and I am very interested in > knowing why, so at a very minimum I can get my users functional again. Heh, welcome to M$. :) > Any suggestions are MORE than appreciated, I've already spent WAY TO LONG on > this little fit w2k/o2k is throwing and I'm about to format/reinstall all of > those users from scratch. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500