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

[Gaiseric Vandal]

Any chance you can downgrade to Win 2008 (not R2?)

On 02/13/2012 11:21 AM, Stuart Bailey wrote:
> 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,
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>            Direct: +44 (0) 1953 878162
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