[Samba] Join Windows machines to a Samba3 domain

[Rowland Penny]

On 16/01/14 19:09, Lea Massiot wrote:
> Thank you for your answer.
>
> Below are some details about the Samba3 configuration which usually works
> for me.
>
> === MAIN CONFIGURATION FILE /etc/smb.conf ===
>
> === DOMAIN USERS' GROUP ===
>
> === MACHINES ===
>
> === USERS ===
>
> === SHARE ===
>
>
> Below are some details about the BIND9 server and DHCPD server
> configurations which usually works for me.
>
> - I have two zone files for name resolution and reverse name resolution.
> - The BIND9 and DHCPD are set to work together: when an IP is delivered by
> the DHCPD server to a client machine, the BIND9 zone files are updated
> automatically.
>
> ======
> I have to say that, at the time, it took me a lot of time to make all this
> work properly.
> Also, even if I agree with you (I wasn't cautious enough), I think that it's
> wrong not to be able to revert to the previous state. Yet I don't know who
> is to blame for this.
> You didn't really answered my question: it's not possible to force the
> Windows clients to work as they used to?
> I just read in that document:
> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/samba-tool/domain/classicupgrade/HOWTO
> the following sentence:
>
> I wish I could know what happened which is not reversible.
>
> Thank you for helping.
>
>
>
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You didn't actually post any information, and I am not saying that you 
cannot revert what you have done, but we need to see what you had before 
and what you tried to do, before we can try and help you get back to 
where you where. This includes knowing what OS's you are using, what 
versions of samba etc.

Rowland