[rdesktop-users] samba password issue

[Glen D. <gl...@ma...>]

Dear All, 

We have started running rdesktop (v1.2.0) recently to access a
Win 2000 terminal server from linux (RH71, RH8) desktops.  
The users' home dirs are mounted from a Tru64 server onto the
Win server using samba version 1.9.17.  (yes, we know that's
really old)  The Tru64 box is running in C2 security mode, 
which locks out user accounts after too many incorrect 
password attempts. 

It appears that users of the rdesktop sessions frequently
leave a Win session running, which has the home dir mounted
from Tru64, and periodically sends username/password pairs
(trying to re-connect?) but has lost the correct password.
This keeps incrementing Tru64's counts of fails, and eventually
locks the account.

Some of the users are closing the rdesktop sessions with the
window-close 'X' (top-right corner) rather than logging out
correctly, but this doesn't seem to account for ALL the users
with problems.

I am wondering whether anyone else has had similar problems;
whether anyone can explain why it happens also with people who
DO logout correctly; and whether anyone knows of an option for
samba or rdesktop to deal with it, and/or to force a window-
close to do a proper Win logout first.

thanks for suggestions
Glen Davison
School of Maths, UNSW