Windows 8 can join to Samba3 domain?

[Darryl Welch]

Andrew:

A bug which prevented a Windows 8 developer preview client from joining an NT4 level domain such as Samba3 was reproduced.  This was found during the Windows 8 developer preview timeframe (September 2011) as we discussed at the SNIA SDC and AD Interop Lab in Redmond.  It was fixed subsequently and this was confirmed in Windows 8 beta which was publicly released as Windows 8 Server Beta and Windows Consumer Preview, 2/19/2012.   

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/consumer-preview?ocid=O_MSC_W8P_OandO_Consumer_EN-US

As with Windows 7, Windows 8 Beta does require the following non default settings.

   Windows 7 and Samba 3 interoperability;  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681622(v=WS.10).aspx

   HKLM\SYSTEM\CCS\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters
        DWORD DomainCompatibilityMode 1
        DWORD DNSNameResolutionRequired 0

Hope this helps,

Darryl.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Bartlett [mailto:abartlet at samba.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 5:02 PM
To: Interoperability Documentation Help
Cc: asn at samba.org; samba-technical at lists.samba.org; TAKAHASHI Motonobu
Subject: Re: Windows 8 can join to Samba3 domain?

On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 07:30 +0900, TAKAHASHI Motonobu wrote:
> As far as I examined, Windows 8 Community Preview cannot join Samba 
> domain. Have you checked?

No.  

> From: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:41:24 +1100
> 
> > On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 01:00 +0900, TAKAHASHI Motonobu wrote:
> > > Is there any answer from Microsoft?
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure the answer was that this is expected to be fixed for 
> > the next beta, but I'll check.

Dochelp,

Per our earlier discussions, particularly at the event at Redmond in October, can you please advise what the status of Samba3 DCs and Windows
8 members is?

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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