[Samba] windows 7 cannot connect

[Andrew Masterson]

>From my build docs for RHEL.  YMMV and caveat emptor  ;-)

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# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# wget http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/<major version>/rhel/5/sernet-samba.repo
> where <major version> is something like 3.5
# yum install samba3.x86_64 samba3-*64*

> increase maximum number of open files and processes for large rsync and copy operations:
> add the following line to /etc/security/limits.conf
*	soft	nofile	16384
*	hard	nofile	100000
(NOTE: 100000 should be < `cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max` or one rogue process can lock the entire box!  LEAVE SOME ROOM!)

# vi ~/.bashrc
> add the following lines to the end of the script
ulimit -u hard 100000000
PS1='[\t \u@\h \W]\$ '

> to allow domain logins to the local box add the following to /etc/pam.d/system-auth **NOTE NOT NEEDED FOR NORMAL FILE SERVERS**USE WITH CAUTION**
auth	sufficient	pam_winbind.so

> REBOOT

# yum update -y

> copy smb.conf to /etc/samba from working server, or backup location, modify as needed for new host (i.e. share locations)
> copy krb5.conf to /etc from working server (note: arcfour-hmac-md5 is the only encryption type that seems to work with server 2008SP2 DCs and samba 3.5+)

> test samba configuration for basic typos, etc.
# testparm

> modify /etc/nsswitch.conf to add winbind lookups
passwd:     files winbind
group:      files winbind

> make a machine account in the domain
# net ads join -U Administrator
(note: if it complains about a DNS update, that is OK as you already specified a static IP in DNS)

> enter the DOMAIN administrator password, note: this creates /etc/samba/secrets.tdb - secure this file, as well as /var/lib/samba/gencache_notrans.tdb, gencache.tdb, group_mapping.ldb
# nmbd -D
# smbd -D
# winbindd

> ensure auto-startup.  Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add 5 lines
/usr/sbin/nmbd -D
/usr/sbin/smbd -D
/usr/sbin/winbindd
/usr/bin/wbinfo -u
/usr/bin/wbinfo -g

> check setup
wbinfo -u  (returns a list of domain users)
wbinfo -g  (returns a list of domain groups)
wbinfo -t (tests shared secret with domain)
nslookup <hostname>  (make sure DNS is configured properly)

> set up backups as appropriate...

DONE

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Hopefully that helps.

-=Andrew


-----Original Message-----
From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Marc Fromm
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 4:38 PM
To: Chris Weiss
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] windows 7 cannot connect

The server currently has 3.0.33 on it, but it needs at least 3.4 to work with windows 7 computers. Red hat will not be upgrading samba beyond 3.0.33 for their 32bit RH5 users. Thus I am stuck and cannot use yum and the red hat repos to do the upgrade. 

On site directed me to this page to download the rpms, but I am not experienced enough with manually updating a package.
http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/ . I downloaded all the files listed under the 3.6/rhel/5/i386 directory.

Thus I was hoping to find to step by step on how to do the upgrade.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Weiss [mailto:cweiss at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 2:17 PM
To: Marc Fromm
Cc: John Drescher; samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] windows 7 cannot connect

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Marc Fromm <Marc.Fromm at wwu.edu> wrote:
> My googling seems to point at upgrading samba to 3.4. Currently installed on my RHEL 5.2 32 bit server is as listed below for smb and samba.
>
> If I was running RHEL 64 bit I would be supported by red hat and updating the OS to the latest 5.x would provide this for me. For some reason red hat feels they do not need to support their 32 bit users, which my server is running, and updating the OS does not update certain packages like samba and php. Even though I have paid support with red hat they will not provide support to update the needed packages.
>
> Thus, is there a detailed set of procedures on how to manually upgrade samba on a RHEL 5.2 server? I do not want to try this by trial and error and cripple the server.
>

I think RH 5 has a samba 3.x package, or was that only Centos?  I don't recall what version it was intro'd

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