This is actually on behalf of a friend and I am not in front of the machine yet. Hopefully I can point him to the right answer and I won’t have to step in.
He has a Samba 3.2 server on openSUSE 11.1. It worked fine with XP and Vista as a PDC. There are no NT servers on this office LAN. Now he has a W7 computer, and he was not able to sign on. From searching, it seems that an upgrade of Samba and a tweak of the registry are required. He did the upgrade to 3.5 from a supplementary openSUSE repo and restarted the server. But it seems he cannot sign on yet. I don’t know if he did the registry tweak, I’m waiting to hear back. The MS article:
My question is: He seems to be under the impression that Samba 4 is required to work with W7, but that M$ article seems to contradict him. Has anybody got W7 working with Samba 3 as a PDC like in XP and Vista? I can’t find any FAQs about this.
>
> This is actually on behalf of a friend and I am not in front of the
> machine yet. Hopefully I can point him to the right answer and I won’t
> have to step in.
>
> He has a Samba 3.2 server on openSUSE 11.1. It worked fine with XP and
> Vista as a PDC. There are no NT servers on this office LAN. Now he has a
> W7 computer, and he was not able to sign on. From searching, it seems
> that an upgrade of Samba and a tweak of the registry are required. He
> did the upgrade to 3.5 from a supplementary openSUSE repo and restarted
> the server. But it seems he cannot sign on yet. I don’t know if he did
> the registry tweak, I’m waiting to hear back. The MS article:
>
> ‘Windows 7 and Samba 3 interoperability’
> (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681622(WS.10).aspx)
>
> My question is: He seems to be under the impression that Samba 4 is
> required to work with W7, but that M$ article seems to contradict him.
> Has anybody got W7 working with Samba 3 as a PDC like in XP and Vista? I
> can’t find any FAQs about this.
>
>
ken;
Look at: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7
Versions after 3.3.X will work with Win7. There are a couple of Reg. changes
needed. We currently have a couple of Win7 machines connected to Samba 3.4.7
PDCs.
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
> On Thu March 25 2010 01:06 am, ken yap wrote:
>
>>
>> This is actually on behalf of a friend and I am not in front of the
>> machine yet. Hopefully I can point him to the right answer and I won’t
>> have to step in.
>>
>> He has a Samba 3.2 server on openSUSE 11.1. It worked fine with XP and
>> Vista as a PDC. There are no NT servers on this office LAN. Now he has a
>> W7 computer, and he was not able to sign on. From searching, it seems
>> that an upgrade of Samba and a tweak of the registry are required. He
>> did the upgrade to 3.5 from a supplementary openSUSE repo and restarted
>> the server. But it seems he cannot sign on yet. I don’t know if he did
>> the registry tweak, I’m waiting to hear back. The MS article:
>>
>> ‘Windows 7 and Samba 3 interoperability’
>> (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681622(WS.10).aspx)
>>
>> My question is: He seems to be under the impression that Samba 4 is
>> required to work with W7, but that M$ article seems to contradict him.
>> Has anybody got W7 working with Samba 3 as a PDC like in XP and Vista? I
>> can’t find any FAQs about this.
>>
>>
> ken;
> Look at:
> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7
>
> Versions after 3.3.X will work with Win7. There are a couple of Reg.
changes
> needed. We currently have a couple of Win7 machines connected to Samba
3.4.7
> PDCs.
Ken;
As usual I posted before the thought was completed. No version of Windows
Home can participate as a domain member this applies to XP, VISTA or Seven.
This is a limitation in Windows Home (they can also not join a Windows AD or
NT). If this is a simple Workgroup I wrote an outline for Seven a couple of
months ago.
See: http://forums.opensuse.org/network-internet/428658-proposed-howto-sharing-windows-7-files.html
–
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
Yes, I know that, because his previous installation was XP Home and he could only use a share, but not join the domain. This is an office computer so I think they’ve bought W7 Cutthroat, Premium or whatever it is called. But now that you mention it, I should clarify with him whether it’s an upgrade, or a new computer, and what level of W7 he has.