[Samba] Fwd: Win 7 Pro

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 13:51 -0400, John Drescher wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:46 PM,  <samba at printflow.eu> wrote:
> > On 2011-10-03 19:40, John Drescher wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Is there anything else I may try ?
> >>
> >> Make sure you have your WINS settings in your windows 7 client so that
> >> the client can find the PDC.
> >
> > Any hint in this ? In ipconfig I see only WINS proxy disabled.
> >
> 
> I usually set the PDC as a WINS server and add that to the windows
> client. Or make sure your DNS servers have the PDC records so the
> windows client can find the PDC.
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/does-samba-pdc-need-dns-544436/

I'm sorry, but almost every suggestion in that forum post is wrong.

If you are joining Windows 7 to Samba (3.x) domain controllers, follow
our official instructions:  http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7

Andrew Bartlett

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