[Samba] Fwd: Win 7 Pro

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 13:51 -0400, John Drescher wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:46 PM,  <samba at printflow.eu> wrote:
>> > On 2011-10-03 19:40, John Drescher wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Is there anything else I may try ?
>> >>
>> >> Make sure you have your WINS settings in your windows 7 client so that
>> >> the client can find the PDC.
>> >
>> > Any hint in this ? In ipconfig I see only WINS proxy disabled.
>> >
>>
>> I usually set the PDC as a WINS server and add that to the windows
>> client. Or make sure your DNS servers have the PDC records so the
>> windows client can find the PDC.
>>
>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/does-samba-pdc-need-dns-544436/
>
> I'm sorry, but almost every suggestion in that forum post is wrong.
>
> If you are joining Windows 7 to Samba (3.x) domain controllers, follow
> our official instructions:  http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7
>

He said he followed that but gets "The specified domain either does not exist or
could not be contacted".

John