[Samba] Samba DC and Win 7

[steve]

On 16/03/12 23:27, Christopher M Bailey wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I know this has been done to death on this forum, but I still can't get
> my Win 7 PCs to join a samba domain.  I have edit the reg keys in HKLM
> \System\CCS\LanmanWorkStation\Parameters, DomainCompatibilityMode = 1
> and DNSNameResolutionRequired = 0, but still no joy.  I am running Samba
> 3.5.10 on CentOS 5.8 and below in my smb.conf file.
>

Hi

We know the feeling. The problems we have had have almost always been 
due to DNS errors. When we join a machine to the domain we always set it 
to use the same DNS as the DC and then only specify the primary DNS.

I don't know about Samba3 but in Samba4, you can get a running log on 
the DC in interactive mode (e.g. samba -i -d3) which gets very excited 
during domain joins. There you can see the dns calls and IP's.

I say almost because we use Spanish keyboards and the password we were 
giving included non alphanumeric characters which our British admin was 
touch typing. Of course you don't see the password as it is typed in. . 
. Moral: don't leave the obvious 'till last. Good luck,

We made a step by step commentary of a windows 7 to Samba domain join 
with screen shots here:

http://linuxcostablanca.blogspot.com.es/2012/02/windows-7-joins-samba-4-domain.html

HTH, Steve