[Samba] Strange problems with Samba 3.0.32 as ADS member of W2k3 domain

Masopust, Christian christian.masopust at siemens.com
Wed Oct 29 14:17:20 GMT 2008


> Masopust, Christian wrote:
> > hello,
> > 
> > i've some strange problems with my samba-servers acting as 
> domain-member
> > (ADS) in a W2k3 active directory.
> > 
> > we have 3 DCs here and running samba without specifying a 
> dedicated "password server"
> > doesn't work!  the 3 DCs have the following roles:
> > 
> > - DC1: PDC-emulator, has global catalog
> > - DC2: RID-master, infrastructure-master, no global catalog
> > - DC3: no special role, has global catalog
> 
> Have DC1 and DC2 been upgraded to Windows Server 2008 by any chance? I
> had similar problems. Machines that had already been joined 
> worked fine
> but new machines had to be joined to the domain by specifying 
> a DC that
> was still running W2k3.
> Upgrading to Samba 3.2 fixed those problems.

hello jelmer,

no, all of our DCs are running W2k3.  Thanks for the hint to upgrade
to 3.2, but I'm currently a little afraid of doing as I heard some 
rumors of 3.2 being a bit buggy...  do you have problems with 3.2 ?

christian

> Regards,
> 
> Jelmer Jaarsma
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