[Samba] Detect for OS version of Active Directory domain controller before join

[David Mulder]

On 8/2/22 1:54 AM, Andrey Cherepanov via samba wrote:
> I try to detect Windows 2003 as domain controller before join to it. Is 
> there any way to do it?
> 

You can do a cldap ping and check the nt version. Simplest way might be 
to use the samba python code:

from samba.net import Net
from samba.dcerpc import nbt
from samba.credentials import Credentials
creds = Credentials()

# Properly initialize your creds here

address = '10.0.1.1' # Initialize your server address

cldap_ret = net.finddc(address=address, flags=nbt.NBT_SERVER_LDAP | 
nbt.NBT_SERVER_DS)

cldap_ret.nt_version # Here is the NT Version


I think a Windows 2003 server will report NT Version 5.2.


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*David Mulder*
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