Windows 8 pro joining Samba domains, and which ones it just fails to join (those with dots in their names)

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 09:43 +0100, paolo turra wrote:
> I have a Centos 6.5 x86_64 kernel 2.6.32-431.5.1 domain server with samba
> 3.6.9-167 already active. Window 7/XP join to domain regurarly but windows
> 8 professional fails. Searching in google the problem is "." (dot) in the
> domain's name, indeed with the domain name "*domain*" (without* .local*)
> windows8 joint to domain. How can i resolve the problem? Have you an idea?
> 

Upgrade your domain to Samba 4.x and run it as an AD DC.  Support for
our 'classic' domain controller is maintained in Microsoft's code (yes
really, NT4 is long-dead but they keep the code around specifically for
Samba!), but edge cases like this are highly likely until you move to
our AD DC. 

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/samba-tool/domain/classicupgrade/HOWTO

Andrew Bartlett

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