[Samba] Joining a MS sevrer 2008 R2 machine to a Samba domain

Stuart Bailey stuart at linusoft.co.uk
Mon Feb 13 09:21:30 MST 2012


Thanks,
I'll see if we can upgrade to S4.

On Monday 13 February 2012 16:00:13 Aaron E. wrote:
> Unfortunately, 2008 servers require AD to function properly with
> licensing. This question has been posed a few times and that was the
> conclusion. It works with S4 but not s3,,
>
> I had a third party seem to get this working on a test server with
> adding extra samba/ldap schemas but have never implemented live as we
> decided to move to S4..
>
> On 02/13/2012 07:47 AM, Stuart Bailey wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm have an established Samba domain, where Samba is the PDC. It is
> > working well with XP and Win7 clients.
> > However, there is some bespoke software that must run on a Windows
> > Server, due to the number of concurrent connections issue.
> >
> > So, we have installed a Windows 2008 R2 server and joined it to the Samba
> > domain. This worked fine after applying the registry changes listed on
> > the Samba wiki.
> >
> > However, I am now getting an error displayed on the Windows Server:
> >
> > 'The server did not finish checking the license compliance. If the server
> > is joined to a domain, make sure that the server can connect to a domain
> > controller. If the license check cannot be completed, the server will
> > automatically shut down in 10 day(s) 22 hour(s). For more information,
> > click Help'
> >
> > Are the any suggested fixes, or config options that will satisfy the
> > Windows server?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS
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Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS
          LinuSoft (Managing Director)
   Linux Specialist & Software Developer
       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
           Phone:   (0845) 658 3563
          Direct: +44 (0) 1953 878162
          Fax:    +44 (0) 1603 858583
       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
            http://www.linusoft.co.uk


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