Hello everyone I am new to this mailing list, I wish to setup a PDC at home using Samba and LDAP, my main concern is that I have a few Windows 7 machines which will be joining the Domain. I researched a few forums and have seen that people have been having trouble with getting 7 and Samba to work. Has anyone had any sucess in setting up a Domain controller to work with Windows 7. Many Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Send us your Hotmail stories and be featured in our newsletter http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Ally Biggs <bluechrome at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:> > Hello everyone I am new to this mailing list, > > I wish to setup a PDC at home using Samba and LDAP, my main concern is that I have a few Windows 7 machines which will be joining the Domain. I researched a few forums and have seen that people have been having trouble with getting 7 and Samba to work. Has anyone had any sucess in setting up a Domain controller to work with Windows 7. >Yes. They work fine together. You need samba-3.3.X or greater. 3.4.X does not allow printing under 64 bit clients but 3.3 or 3.5 are good. To logon the domain you will need the registry entries for samba 3.4.X, 3.3.X http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7 John
John Drescher wrote:>Yes. They work fine together. You need samba-3.3.X or greater. 3.4.X >does not allow printing under 64 bit clients but 3.3 or 3.5 are good.I was about to upgrade from 3.3 to 3.4 until I read that. Is the 64-bit printing issue going to be fixed in the 3.4 series? Moray. "To err is human. To purr, feline"
>>Yes. They work fine together. You need samba-3.3.X or greater. 3.4.X >>does not allow printing under 64 bit clients but 3.3 or 3.5 are good. > > I was about to upgrade from 3.3 to 3.4 until I read that. ?Is the 64-bit > printing issue going to be fixed in the 3.4 series? >Fixed in the 3.5 series although I have not verified that. John
> Are there any changes I need to implement on the Windows 7 Clients to get > them to see Samba Shares?? >Seeing the shares even worked with the unsupported/deprecated 3.0.36 with no changes. Joining the domain requires 3.3.X and above and the registry entries. John
On 03/04/2010 03:22 AM, Moray Henderson wrote:> John Drescher wrote: >> Yes. They work fine together. You need samba-3.3.X or greater. 3.4.X >> does not allow printing under 64 bit clients but 3.3 or 3.5 are good. > > I was about to upgrade from 3.3 to 3.4 until I read that. Is the 64-bit > printing issue going to be fixed in the 3.4 series?Suggest you visit the samba web site: http://www.samba.org In the right column is a link to the release notes for 3.4.6 I think it says something like: o Fix printing with 64 bit clients (bug #6888). - John T.> > > Moray. > "To err is human. To purr, feline" > >
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:22:56AM +0000, Moray Henderson wrote:> John Drescher wrote: > >Yes. They work fine together. You need samba-3.3.X or greater. 3.4.X > >does not allow printing under 64 bit clients but 3.3 or 3.5 are good. > > I was about to upgrade from 3.3 to 3.4 until I read that. Is the 64-bit > printing issue going to be fixed in the 3.4 series?Yes, it was fixed in 3.4.6 (now out). Jeremy.
Jeremy Allison wrote:>> >Yes. They work fine together. You need samba-3.3.X or greater. 3.4.X >> >does not allow printing under 64 bit clients but 3.3 or 3.5 aregood.>> >> I was about to upgrade from 3.3 to 3.4 until I read that. Is the64-bit>> printing issue going to be fixed in the 3.4 series? > >Yes, it was fixed in 3.4.6 (now out).Great - thanks for all your hard work! Moray. "To err is human.? To purr, feline"