This is driving me crazy!

I have samba configured to use a Windows 2000 Server Active directory to validate logins. Nobody actually logs into the SuSE Linux server, it's used as a file server.

The problem is, sometimes when they save a file Samba puts the simple login name as the owner of the file. Other times, it decides to put the DOMAIN in front of the login name, like this: "DOMAIN\kathy". Still other times she's "DOMAIN.COM\kathy".

Of course, this means people get all sorts of read only messages when they edit files they made a few days before.

This normally happens right after a reboot.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Further information:

Come to find out, new people logging into windows could not reach the SuSE server at all. After doing a /init.d/windbind -stop and start, it started working. But now it's asighning numbers as user names -like this: 10012 10000. I assume these are windbind names and groups, and somehow it's lost the crossreference to the names.

Ok, a further update.

If I log all the way out, and then back in, everything is now working perfectly. When I save the file I get a simple login name as owner.

It's got something to do with windbind, since windbind makes up those funcky DOMAIN\login things.

Can I just stop running windbind?