samba - Jan 2015 - Forest/Domain Functional Level of Active Directory

Hi,

I have setup the Active Directory DS on Windows 2012 R2 server. I am trying
to test samba (version 3.6.6) functionalities on this setup.
Forest and Domain both Functional Level in the setup is : Windows Server
2012 R2
The question I have is, "What dependencies or functionality constraints
samba have on the Forest/Domain Functional Level of Active Directory?"

Please let me know if query is not very clear. Thanks in advance.


Regards,
Avinesh

Samba 4 functions at level of server 2008 as domain controller. You can
join samba as a client to server 2012. I found it imposible to join samba 4
as secondary domain controller to server 2012

Hello,

Am 09.01.2015 um 12:25 schrieb avinesh saini:
> I have setup the Active Directory DS on Windows 2012 R2 server. I am trying
> to test samba (version 3.6.6) functionalities on this setup.
> Forest and Domain both Functional Level in the setup is : Windows Server
> 2012 R2
> The question I have is, "What dependencies or functionality
constraints
> samba have on the Forest/Domain Functional Level of Active Directory?"
> 
> Please let me know if query is not very clear. Thanks in advance.

The AD functional levels are not relevant for member servers (neither
Samba nor Windows). Maybe if you run some special services like Exchange
or something on the member, that require some special features inside
the AD.


Regards,
Marc

Am 09.01.2015 um 14:58 schrieb jacek burghardt:
> Samba 4 functions at level of server 2008 as domain controller.
Default forest and domain functional level is 2003 native during the
provisioning. Supported is 2000 up to including 2008 R2.



> I found it imposible to join samba 4 as secondary domain
> controller to server 2012.
Right. Samba doesn't support all features of the 2012 (R2) schema yet.

If you need Windows DCs mixed together with Samba DCs in an AD forest,
the newest Windows DC can only be 2008 R2.

Windows 2012 and later as a member server is no problem. Simply join
them like a workstation.



Regards,
Marc