[Samba] RSAT not working any more?

Thomas Kamalakis thkam at hua.gr
Sat Oct 30 12:04:46 UTC 2021


Dear all

  I can confirm that Active Directory Users and Computers and Group Policy
Management seem to work well (for example I was able to remove the change
password option when the user presses Ctrl-Alt-Del).

  Many thanks to all for your help!

  BR

  Thomas

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 8:14 PM Ingo Asche via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> yes, it's working, I have created several GPOs with it...
>
> Regards
> Ingo
> https://github.com/WAdama
>
> Patrick Goetz schrieb am 29.10.2021 um 19:12:
> > Thanks, Ingo -
> >
> > What about the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) -- does this
> > still work?
> >
> > On 10/29/21 11:32, Ingo Asche wrote:
> >> Hi Patrick,
> >>
> >> that's not quite true...
> >>
> >> Only for example the Active-Directory Management Center didn't work
> >> for as Rowland said the missing Powershell modules and the web server.
> >>
> >> But Active Directory User and Computers or the DNS management should
> >> still work.
> >>
> >> I use it on Windows 10 21H1 19043.1320. The only difference is the
> >> Samba version at the moment: 4.18.8, but I used it also to test
> >> 4.15.0 and the upcoming 4.15.1 and it still works...
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Ingo
> >> https://github.com/WAdama
> >>
> >> Patrick Goetz via samba schrieb am 29.10.2021 um 18:15:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 10/29/21 10:42, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, 2021-10-29 at 17:57 +0300, Thomas Kamalakis via samba wrote:
> >>>>> Dear all
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    I am having trouble administering Samba DC using RSAT on a Windows
> >>>>> 10
> >>>>> machine.
> >>>>
> >>>> Unfortunately RSAT on the latest Windows 10 needs a web server that
> >>>> Samba does not have.
> >>>
> >>> OMG, what? Are you saying we can't use RSAT? It's a bit problematic
> >>> that the Wiki in most cases advises you to use RSAT for this and
> >>> that. How do we create GPO's without RSAT, for example?  When you
> >>> say latest version of Windows 10, can you pinpoint what version that
> >>> is so I most carefully do not update one of the W10 machines?
> >>>
> >>> Time for another dose of 'zac and jack (Prozac washed down with Jack
> >>> Daniels). Why, oh why did I get out of math, where nothing ever
> >>> suffers random updates that break everything?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    Installation info:
> >>>>>    Samba version: 4.14.9 (installed fresh from source on an Ubuntu
> >>>>> 20.04).
> >>>>>    Windows 10 client: Windows 10 Pro (21H1 - OS build 19043.1288)
> >>>>>    RSAT server manager: Build number 10.0.19041.1 / 12-6-2019
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    Server manager identifies the server running the "Samba" operating
> >>>>> system
> >>>>> and then reports "Error - Cannot manage the operating system of the
> >>>>> target
> >>>>> computer"
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    The Windows 10 client has successfully joined the domain and I am
> >>>>> logged
> >>>>> in as Administrator at DOMAIN.EXAMPLE.COM without any problems.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    DNS is working on the DC, and I am correctly resolving the LDAP
> >>>>> and
> >>>>> kerberos services as well as the dc name dc1.domain.example.com
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    I've also tried the Ubuntu 20.04 samba version (4.11.6) on a clean
> >>>>> install and behavior is the same. Clean installing Samba 4.15 was
> >>>>> worse,
> >>>>> Administrator could not login, it seems this is a widespread problem
> >>>>> for
> >>>>> the 4.15, this is why I ended up building the 4.14.9
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes, there is known problem with 4.15.0, the upcoming 4.15.1 will fix
> >>>> this.
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    Does any one have any suggestions? I remember RSAT working fine
> >>>>> with
> >>>>> earlier Windows and Samba versions.
> >>>>
> >>>> Not at the moment, there are numerous programs out there, but nothing
> >>>> exactly like RSAT, the nearest is a package that Altlinux is working
> >>>> on.
> >>>>
> >>>> Rowland
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
>
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
> instructions:  https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
>


-- 
Dr. Thomas Kamalakis
Professor and Dean of the School of Digital Technology
Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens,
Greece
Omirou 9, Tavros, Athens, GR17778, Tel: +302109549406,
Web: https://galaxy.hua.gr/~thkam, Github:
https://github.com/thomaskamalakis/


More information about the samba mailing list