[Samba] Samba authenication to Window Active Directory

[Gerald Carter]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote:

> we are moving our member servers ( windows ) to win2000 from NT4.0
> 
> right now samba is  memeber server in NT4.0 resource domain, but accounts
> domain is AD.
> so we have samba directing authentication to PDC in NT domain which again
> gets info from  AD accounts DC.
> 
> Just wondering if i need to upgrade from 2.0.7 to 2.2.5 if PDC in NT
> resource domain is being upgraded to Win2K DC.
> 
> 
> so far 2.0.7 is pretty solid without any issues.
> 

And also pretty old right now.  Try it and see.  My guess is that 
you will end up required 2.2.5 due to some Win2k SP issue or feature.
Although I can' give a specific example.  Sid History maybe?
Don't remember if this was supported in 2.0.7 or not.










cheers, jerry
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