samba - Sep 2009 - Samba as member in AD-domain: which windows to prefer?

Greets, samba-users,

I am forced to accept the fact that the migration to some new software
leads my customer to introduce a windows-based DC ... degrading my
samba/ldap-setup to domain-members ... *sigh*

Now I am asked what windows server to prefer (in terms of how samba will
interact): ms windows server 2003 or 2008 ?

I googled a bit but haven't yet found a clear answer so I choose to risk
a "rtfm"-reply here ...

Currently I still run samba-3.0.33 there (gentoo-based), so what would
you experienced users point me at? Sure, I will upgrade samba if
recommended or needed.

Thanks a lot, Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Greets, samba-users,
> 
> I am forced to accept the fact that the migration to some new 
> software leads my customer to introduce a windows-based DC ... 
> degrading my samba/ldap-setup to domain-members ... *sigh*
> 
> Now I am asked what windows server to prefer (in terms of how samba 
> will interact): ms windows server 2003 or 2008 ?
> 
Like now I have more than one samba 3.3 with win 2k3 and it work without
problem, but no win2k8. The unique tip that I can suggest you are, if
you can, try to setup a test environment with virtual-machine. When I
test for the first time the samba 3.3 like an AD server-member it
provide me all the possible problems and leave me to head banging inside
them *before* the production!

P.s. You can download the various 2k3 and 2k8 trials from the Microsoft
download site

Michele

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists at xunil.at>
wrote:
>
> Greets, samba-users,
>
> I am forced to accept the fact that the migration to some new software
> leads my customer to introduce a windows-based DC ... degrading my
> samba/ldap-setup to domain-members ... *sigh*
>
> Now I am asked what windows server to prefer (in terms of how samba will
> interact): ms windows server 2003 or 2008 ?
>
> I googled a bit but haven't yet found a clear answer so I choose to
risk
> a "rtfm"-reply here ...
>
> Currently I still run samba-3.0.33 there (gentoo-based), so what would
> you experienced users point me at? Sure, I will upgrade samba if
> recommended or needed.
>
2K3 works fine here as a client for samba-3.0.36 from portage. I have
not tested 2k8 but I also believe (from reading this mailing list)
this requires samba-3.3.X or better. samba-3.3.7 is in portage so if
you go that route there is a version you can use.

John