[Samba] Issue Joining Win7 to Samba Domain (tried wiki instructions)

Linda Walsh samba at tlinx.org
Thu Dec 17 09:31:54 MST 2009


Moray Henderson wrote:
> Last time I saw something like this, it was because the client (Win XP)
> did not have a WINS server set, and couldn’t find the domain.  Can you
> ping the server from the problem client - by IP address and by name?  Is
> its firewall blocking any SMB ports?
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	FWIW, I checked my Win7 client.  It still has its win server set to
the Samba PDC.  The PDC has 'smb ports = 139' set to attempt to use the %m
macro in the config file.  The win7 client currently has firewall set to 
disabled, as it's located on a isolated subnet.




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