[Samba] Win7 can't joint Samba domain?

[Mike Eggleston]

On Fri, 01 Jul 2011, John Drescher might have said:

> > We've been trying to get a newly loaded Win7 (64-bin) box to join our internal Samba domain. The error that keeps appearing is the win7 box can't find the domain controller and is looking for the registry keys NetpLoadParameters DNSNameResolutionRequired. We've set these registry keys before on other boxes, and have tried on this box, and stuff isn't working?
> >
> > Any suggestions on what to try?
> >
> 
> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7
> 
> Also search for the samba mailing list trust issues with windows7
> machines. In this you will find how to disable the machine password
> updates.
> 
> John

John (and anyone else),

That link says the same registry keys we're trying to set. Attempting to
join the Samba domain is still failing with an error those registry keys
cannot be found. This same installation disk was used to install Win7
on another box and it worked just fine. I can't think of any changes. I
don't understand why the previous box and win7 worked and this new box
with win7 is failing.

Mike