[Samba] Joining a SAMBA 4 TP4 Active Directory with WinXP

[Mag. Leonhard Landrock]

Am Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007 17:48 schrieb Tim Boneko:
> Mag. Leonhard Landrock schrieb:
> > *) smbclient //localhost/test -Uadministrator%k6exst
>
> Did this part succeed? I.e. did you get a prompt?

Yes. Worked fine.

> > *) Start a virtual machine with WinXP SP2 and trying to join the domain
> > LEOSENDE.FUN.
>
> Might all this virtualisation be a bit too much? Maybe you can check
> with a real client. After all, i didn't run any VMs lately and don't
> know much about that.
>
> > NOTE: I have an german WinXP and I'am not sure what the right username
> > for joining the domain would be. I even tried "root" as usernam, but htat
> > didn't work either.
>
> To join with user "root", you have to set up the samba password for root
> (at least in samba < 4)

OK. But I tried the user name "Administrator" with the password set at the 
beginning i.e. with "./setup/provision".

> > Is it possible to join the Domain "LEOSENDE.FUN"?
>
> Does the documentation of the package say anything about it?

Not really. But README says:

"NEW FEATURES
============

Samba4 supports the server-side of the Active Directory logon environment
used by Windows 2000 and later, so we can do full domain join
and domain logon operations with these clients."

> The STATUS and README file are mentioned on the samba website.

I just added the following docs: "howto.txt", "README", "STATUS".

Note: "STATUS" is an almost empty file. Funny.

> 	timbo

Leonhard.