[Samba] Clients unable to get group policy...

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny at googlemail.com
Fri Jun 12 08:43:59 MDT 2015


On 12/06/15 15:17, Ryan Ashley wrote:
> Louis, 4.2.2 (git clone method for 4-2-stable branch) is what I am
> running. I will NOT be using Debian 8 due to systemd. If I have to do
> this, we're going to plan a down-time for the client, zero everything,
> do a fresh XenServer install and install Gentoo 64bit under XS. If that
> is what must be done, so be it. I can do that. I'll simply have one VM
> on each physical server which builds the source packages into binary
> ones for the others to pull. This way Gentoo doesn't bog things down
> during business hours with compiling updates.
>
> Lead IT/IS Specialist
> Reach Technology FP, Inc
>
> On 06/12/2015 09:14 AM, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
>> Or upgrade you xen servers and a tip for a jessie install on xen 6.2 choose other linux
>> or upgrade to Xen 6.5. for jessie support.
>>
>> or you can try upgradeing to latest 3.6 version on squeeze. ( 3.6.25 )
>> http://www.enterprisesamba.com/samba-packages/debian-linux/squeeze/
>> or even better move up to 4.2.2. ( i advice a wheezy install with sernet samba )
>> and member servers can be debian jessie with 4.1.17. thats what you want.
>>
>> which samba are you using on squeeze. 3.5.x of the backported 3.6.6 ?
>>
>>
>> Greetz,
>>
>> Louis
>>
>>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>>> Van: ryana at reachtechfp.com
>>> [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens Ryan Ashley
>>> Verzonden: vrijdag 12 juni 2015 14:47
>>> Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
>>> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Clients unable to get group policy...
>>>
>>> Anybody? Is my problem that this client is still on Debian 6?
>>>
>>> Lead IT/IS Specialist
>>> Reach Technology FP, Inc
>>>
>>> On 06/08/2015 11:25 AM, Ryan Ashley wrote:
>>>> Rowland, you are correct. I remember now. When we started using
>>>> XenServer, Wheezy would not work under it. This is a Squeeze
>>>> installation, not Wheezy. Will Samba no longer work with
>>> Squeeze? If so
>>>> it may be an excuse to upgrade the domain after all these years.
>>>>
>>>> On 06/05/2015 11:23 AM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>>>> On 05/06/15 16:07, Ryan Ashley wrote:
>>>>>> I noticed something different on the page you linked. It must be
>>>>>> outdated or maybe it is setup for a different version of
>>> Debian. The
>>>>>> system runs Debian Wheezy AMD64. The paths referenced do
>>> not exist. I
>>>>>> also checked several other Debian systems and NONE have the
>>>>>> "x86_64-linux-gnu" directories.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> root at dc01:~# uname -r
>>>>>> 2.6.32-5-amd64
>>>>>> root at dc01:~# l /lib | grep x86
>>>>>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      12 Dec 27  2012
>>> ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ->
>>>>>> ld-2.11.3.so
>>>>>> root at dc01:~# l /usr/lib | grep x86
>>>>>> root at dc01:~#
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this the problem? What version of Debian is the guide
>>> for? I believe
>>>>>> Debian 8 was released recently but cannot be sure since it
>>> is a systemd
>>>>>> distro I now use Gentoo. If the guide is for 8, maybe we
>>> need one for 7
>>>>>> since it is supported until the release of 9.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Are you sure it is running wheezy ?
>>>>>
>>>>> On my DC:
>>>>>
>>>>> root at dc01:~# cat /etc/os-release
>>>>> PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)"
>>>>> NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
>>>>> VERSION_ID="7"
>>>>> VERSION="7 (wheezy)"
>>>>> ID=debian
>>>>> ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
>>>>> HOME_URL="http://www.debian.org/"
>>>>> SUPPORT_URL="http://www.debian.org/support/"
>>>>> BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.debian.org/"
>>>>>
>>>>> root at dc01:~# uname -r
>>>>> 3.2.0-4-amd64
>>>>>
>>>>> root at dc01:~# ls /lib | grep x86
>>>>> x86_64-linux-gnu
>>>>>
>>>>> Rowland
>>>>>
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You don't have to go to such extremes, you can still use wheezy and 
latest samba from Sernet, this should buy you some time until Devaun 
comes out.
I too will not use debian jessie, in my opinion, if you run a Linux 
system with systemd, you might as well run windows.

Rowland



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