SOLVED Re: [Samba] Problems starting Server 2008 x64 after added to samba domain

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 04:15:17PM -0500, Mike Eggleston wrote:
> 
> I have a similar problem with windows server 2008 standard 64 bit. I
> downgraded to windows server 2003 and the box works fine. Dell tech
> support tells me that 2008 is 'too new' and will not work with the NT4
> PDC that samba provides and that windows server 2003 support fixes from
> microsoft will stop this year, so (dell says) I need to prepare and plan
> to get rid of my samba pdc.

Weeelllll, that's not strictly true. Win7 clients will work
with a Samba PDC, so I don't think Win2008 should have a
problem. It's probably just a bug, we'll track it down
and fix it (hopefully).

Jeremy.