[Samba] SAmba 4.9 and Win XP Clients

[Rowland Penny]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 11:32:50 -0500
Marco Shmerykowsky <marco at sce-engineers.com> wrote:

> On 2019-02-17 11:23 am, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 11:01:26 -0500
> > Marco Shmerykowsky <marco at sce-engineers.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On 2019-02-17 10:54 am, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> >> > On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 10:37:48 -0500
> >> > Marco Shmerykowsky <marco at sce-engineers.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Seems I can map a drive from the command line. (Didn't check
> >> >> that
> >> >> - it was 2:00am and I was tired with fighting this stuff)
> >> >
> >> > Time you went to bed ;-)
> >> >
> >> > its 15:45 Sun here.
> >> > As I said, there is no netbios browsing in a Samba AD domain, not
> >> > that it makes much difference, it is going away in Windows as
> >> > well. You have, as you have found out, have to use the shares
> >> > UNC.
> >> >
> >> >>   The windows graphical way to map drives isn't working.
> >> >
> >> > I don't use Windows much, but I thought it was supposed to work.
> >> >
> >> >> I guess no real issue if I can manually map drives.
> >> >
> >> > Glad you got it working.
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Server smb.conf file (you helped with this one :) )
> >> >> It's a domain member.
> >> >
> >> > Sorry, but I cannot remember every smb.conf ;-)
> >> >
> >> > Nothing wrong there LOL
> >> >
> >> > I would suggest you stick to using the Unix domain member as the
> >> > fileserver and the DC just for authentication.
> >> >
> >> > Rowland
> >> 
> >> With this new AD setup, can you still use logon scripts
> >> instead of group policy depending on the OS logging in?
> > 
> > As for as I am aware, yes
> > 
> >> 
> >> The group policy drive map isn't working on the XP client.
> > 
> > It should, you just have to create new GPO's (Do not use either of
> > the two default GPO's)
> > 
> > Rowland
> 
> I did.  IT didn't.  The GPO worked fine with the Win10 clients.

This sounds more like an XP problem rather than a Samba AD DC problem,
try searching the internet.

Rowland