[Samba] Join a Windows 2012R2 to a Samba Domain

[Rowland penny]

On 22/01/2021 08:37, Dirk Streubel via samba wrote:
> Hello,
>
> joining a Windows Sever 2012R2 to a Samba Domain would work but it 
> will breaks the AD Replication,
>
> (https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Joining_a_Windows_Server_2012_/_2012_R2_DC_to_a_Samba_AD) 
>
>
> In the Section "Warning" there are two Bugs and the latest entry in 
> Bug 13619 is written in February 2019.
>
> Are there any News or is this bug still open?
>
> See you
>
> Dirk
>
>
It is very likely that page needs rewriting, Samba can now use the 
2012R2 schema (69), as proved by this:

root at dc4:~# ldbsearch -H /var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb -b 
'cn=Schema,cn=Configuration,dc=samdom,dc=example,dc=com' -s base 
objectVersion
# record 1
dn: CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=samdom,DC=example,DC=com
objectVersion: 69

The problem is that you need a 2008 or 2008R2 in the domain for WMI to 
join a 2012 DC, unless someone knows a workaround.

Rowland