[Samba] Samba4 DC with Samba3 file-server howto

[Rowland Penny]

On 15/08/12 18:24, steve wrote:
> On 15/08/12 17:47, Gémes Géza wrote:
>> 2012-08-15 13:02 keltezéssel, steve írta:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have a Samba4 DC (hh30.hh3.site, 192.168.1.30) and a Samba3 VM on
>>> the same box (hh33.hh3.site, 192.168.1.33).
>>>
>>> How do I tell XP and 7 clients to look at the S4 DC for authentication
>>> and the S3 fileserver for files?
>>>
>>> It already does the authentication bit OK. It's mainly the second part
>>> of the question as to how to instruct the m$ boxes to look at the
>>> file-server rather than the DC for files.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Steve
>> Hi,
>>
>> It depends on what you mean by having to look at.
>>
>> On way is to write some logon scripts, by which they would map the
>> shares as drives (of course that suppose to have the Samba3 boxes joined
>> to the AD of Samba4). If you intend to share some home directories, then
>> create the home share on Samba3 and specify the homepath for each user
>> as \\samba3servershostname\%USERNAME% and a homedrive according to your
>> taste (I had chosen U: (about 10 years ago (Samba 2.2.something))). If
>> you want to redirect some folders (e.g. Documents, Desktop, etc.) you
>> can do that by firing up the group policy editor and specifying the
>> redirects there.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Geza
>
> Hi Geza
> Thanks for the clue.
>
> I specified
> homeDrive: Z:
> homeDirectory: \\hh32\home\user
> profilePath: \\hh32\profiles\user
>
> Is that what you mean? If so, it works.
>
> That's great for users, but Administrator can't access the shares. He 
> always gets a logon prompt. Even with the correct username and 
> password he still cannot access any share on \\hh32
>
> Anyway, great news for the users. Need to get Administrator sorted out.
> Cheers and thanks again,
> Steve
>
>
Could this be that Administrator is not a member of the groups that are 
allowed access?

Rowland


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