[Samba] Integration Windows Server 2012

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 11:00 +0100, Rowland penny wrote:
> On 31/05/2019 10:55, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 10:46 +0100, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> > > As far as I am aware 2012 is planned for 4.11 (but as I am sure you are
> > > aware, plans can change), after that I am sure that 2016 will be added
> > > as soon as possible.
> > It depends on what you mean by 2012.  We should be able to join and be
> > joined by a 2012 server thanks to the work to upgrade the schema
> > (patches in just some defaults to tweak) and the adprep stuff under
> > samba-tool domain functionalprep
> > 
> > However we can't be a 2012R2 functional level server yet, or in the
> > near future, as we do not implement the kerberos features that implies.
> > 
> > I'm still hoping to upgrade our Heimdal (perhaps SambaXP will help re-
> > start that process) but that is only one part of the task.
> > 
> > I hope this clarifies,
> > 
> > Andrew Bartlett
> > 
> Thanks for that Andrew, I based my post on something Tim posted earlier 
> in another post.

No worries!  We really should have the canonical info in a wiki
somewhere, but sady there is 
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Joining_a_Windows_Server_2012_/_2012_R2_DC_to_a_Samba_AD 
but of course it mentions none of the above.  Anther task for another
day I suppose.

Andrew Bartlett
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