[Samba] Update Samba PDC - win7 stop working

[Daniel Müller]

Samba 3.4 will work but 3.5 Samba sernet and 3.6 Samba sernet  are closer to win7 and w2008.

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EDV Daniel Müller

Leitung EDV
Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus
Paul-Lechler-Str. 24
72076 Tübingen

Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499
eMail: mueller at tropenklinik.de
Internet: www.tropenklinik.de
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Von: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Im Auftrag von Dr.Peer-Joachim Koch
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 10:56
An: samba at lists.samba.org
Betreff: Re: [Samba] Update Samba PDC - win7 stop working

Hi,

thanks for the hints.

Am 29.03.2012 10:13, schrieb Daniel Müller:
> You need to run samba 3.5 or samba 3.6 from sernet.
So 3.4 from Novell will *never* work ?
After running the update of the OS we simply have to use the sernet rpm and everything is fine ?
>
> To get your Win 7 and W2008 Server in the domain you need to do some registry entries.
> See: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7
We are already running the WIN7 machines with the registry entries. On the old installation everything is fine.
>
> If you are running a virtual machine I suggest to move from SLES to 
> centos
>
>
> Good Luck
> Daniel
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> EDV Daniel Müller
>
> Leitung EDV
> Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus
> Paul-Lechler-Str. 24
> 72076 Tübingen
>
> Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499
> eMail: mueller at tropenklinik.de
> Internet: www.tropenklinik.de
> -----------------------------------------------
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org 
> [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Im Auftrag von Dr.Peer-Joachim 
> Koch
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 08:31
> An: samba at lists.samba.org
> Betreff: [Samba] Update Samba PDC - win7 stop working
>
> Hi,
>
> we have tried to update our rather old samba PDC. The system is running on Novell SLES 10  SP2 with the samba RPM from Sernet.
> We stopped everything and updated (booting from DVD, using offline update) the machine to SLES 11 SP1 started samba and everything was fine - expect all WIN 7 and W2008XX Server.
> Those clients were not able to use the domain.
> XP and Vista (32 and 64) worked without any problems. After 2h of searching we switched back to the old Installation, to get everything back to work.
> The PDC is a virtual machine. so using the snapshot worked very well 
> ;)
>
> However I do not have the log files anymore :(
>
> OLD
> OS                                                Samba ver
> SLES 10 SP2 (i586)                    samba3-3.3.4-39
>
> NEW
> OS                                                Samba ver
> SLES 11 SP1 (i586)                    samba-3.4.3
>
>
>
> *) Has anybody seen this kind of behavior ?
>     (Doing samba update ->  Win7 is not able to use the domain 
> anymore)
>
> *) Is there a way to test those steps ? The pdc is using our LDAP Server, so we can not simply clone the pdc and test everything in a separate network...
> (or we have to clone a couple of server ...)
>
> *) When we update the PDC and we get everything working  - which version is recommended (3.4.X // 3.5.X. // 3.6.X ) ?
>
> --
> Bye,
>       Peer
> _________________________________________________________
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> Dr. Peer-Joachim Koch
> Hans-Knöll Str.10            Telefon: ++49 3641 57-6705
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>


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Mit freundlichem Gruß
     Peer-Joachim Koch
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Max-Planck-Institut fuer Biogeochemie
Dr. Peer-Joachim Koch
Hans-Knöll Str.10            Telefon: ++49 3641 57-6705
D-07745 Jena                 Telefax: ++49 3641 57-7705