[Samba] can windows server 2012 R2 join samba ad directly

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2022-03-19 at 09:24 +0800, Adam Xu via samba wrote:
> Hi samba list,
> 
> accroding to samba wiki, 
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Joining_a_Windows_Server_2012_/_2012_R2_DC_to_a_Samba_AD
> 
> Windows server 2012 R2 can't join to samba AD directly. I need to join a 
> windows server 2018 R2 to samba AD first and then join windows server 
> 2012 R2 to samba AD.
> 
> but a searched for a document. 
> https://samba.tranquil.it/doc/en/samba_advanced_methods/samba_add_windows_active_directory.html
> 
> In that document, we can join windows server 2012 R2 to samba directly.
> 
> Which document is more reliable? My samba version is 4.15.6.

Why not try it?

If it works, update the wiki.  

It's the weekend, so this is just from memory, but while we did a pile
of work on our 'adprep' reimplementation (using the public script files
MS published, thanks MS!), to allow this, and before that recommended
going via a MS server to run their adprep, Microsoft fixed some bugs we
alerted them to.

That I understand now allows a join directly.

Andrew Bartlett

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