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

Aaron E. ssureshot at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 10:19:49 MST 2012


Nope, R1 was the version I was first working with..

On 02/13/2012 12:04 PM, Gaiseric Vandal wrote:
> 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,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS
>>>> LinuSoft (Managing Director)
>>>> Linux Specialist& Software Developer
>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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>>>>
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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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