[Samba] Replacing a Samba 3.0 Domain controller

[Mark Nienberg]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Frank Thynne <fthynne at elmplace.co.uk>
wrote:

> Despite advice on Samba HOWTO that all supported versions will support
> Windows 7 there seems to be an unstated caveat, namely that it must be
> configured as an Active Directory Domain Controller. Microsoft's own advice
> is that Windows 7 will not work with a Windows NT domain controller and is
> not intended to do so.


Windows 7 clients work just fine on samba NT-style domains. There is no
need for Active Directory if you don't want it.

On the Windows clients you have to make one registry change as described
here:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Required_settings_for_NT4-style_domains