[Samba] Volume Activation with Samba AD

[L.P.H. van Belle]

I saw a nice howto about activation win 7/10 through ad, i’ve not tested it but it may give more options.

i’ll look it up tomorrow when im at the office.

greetz,

Louis

> Op 24 jul. 2018 om 19:16 heeft Christian Naumer via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> Am 24.07.2018 um 18:34 schrieb Thomas Glanzmann:
>> Hello Christian,
>> 
>>> what I meant is not acting as a KMS server but something new Microsoft
>>> introduced. In windows 10 the tool vor managing Volume Licences asks if
>>> you have a KMS server or if you want to use AD for activating the
>>> software. I haven't tried it yet as I would need to setup a test
>>> environment.
>>> So I asked here to see if somebody tried it before. I can test this with
>>> samba but I don't have a Windows AD so can not help there.
>> 
>> from my understanding is. You have a KMS server on the network. You set
>> a DNS record. Than Windows tries to connect to the KMS server and
>> activates itself. If you miss that DNS record, you can do it manually:
>> 
>> Here is an example request:
>> 
>> 18:13:08.769942 IP 10.101.226.235.56381 > 10.101.0.1.53: 54581+ SRV?  _VLMCS._TCP.gmvl.de. (37)
>> 
>> Here is how you do it manually:
>> 
>> slmgr -skms <kmsserver>
>> slmgr -ato
> We have a KMS running and it is working fine. However, we don't want to
> replace this server when 2008R2 is dropped from support. So we are
> looking for alternatives that do not require Windows servers
> 
> I mean this here:
> 
> https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfeplat/2013/02/04/active-directory-based-activation-vs-key-management-services/
> 
> So there is a Schema update needed for it to work. I thought this might
> be possible with samba.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Christian
> 
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