[Samba] samba 3.60 vs Windows 7 and a PDC replacement

[Michael da Silva Pereira]

So if I tried samba 4, you saying my chances of getting this to work are
higher?

Will the regedit hack be required in samba4?

Kind Regards,
Michael da Silva Pereira
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On 13 October 2011 06:45, Jorell <JorellF at fastmail.net> wrote:

> All Samba 3.x are NT-Style Domains (requires NetBIOS) and Samba 4 is Active
> Directory Services (ADS) (requires DNS).
> Samba 3.x cannot also be a domain controller with windows servers, however
> Samba4 can also be a domain controller with windows servers.
> Chances are your Windows Server is Active Directory Services.
>
> here is some light reading:
> http://wiki.samba.org/index.**php/Samba4_joining_a_domain<http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_joining_a_domain>
> http://wiki.samba.org/index.**php/Samba4/HOWTO<http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO>
>
>
>
> On 10/12/2011 6:52 PM, Lumeng Lim wrote:
>
>> I have the same problem.
>>
>> we tried with samba 3.4 and win7 just can't be joined to samba pdc and
>> winxp isnt loading the domain user properly.
>>
>> tried the registry hack with no avail too
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> *Subject: *[Samba] samba 3.60 vs Windows 7 and a PDC replacement
>> *From: *Michael da Silva Pereira <michael at tradepage.co.za>
>> *To: *samba at lists.samba.org
>> *Date: *Thu Oct 13 03:28:33 2011
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am scratching my hair a bit with a situation to replace a Windows
>>> SBS with
>>> something more usable and less rubbish :)
>>>
>>> I have 2 basic queries:
>>> 1.) With samba 3.60 do I still need to the registry hack on windows 7 to
>>> join the domain?
>>> 2.) Could I simple kill the SBS box, and advertise my smb as the existing
>>> domain. (Obviously creating the same users, and possibly manually
>>> adding all
>>> the computers to the domain).
>>>
>>> It's a very big network and going to a few hundred machines doing a reg
>>> hack, and then joining a domain and copying profiles is just not an
>>> option
>>> at this stage :(
>>>
>>> Any advice would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Michael da Silva Pereira
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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