Apols guys about the Thread question. I saw a discussion between Roland and Steve and was just trying to get more info. So apols about hijacking an old thread as it was a bad attempt to nudge a conversion. Firstly could anybody explain why the last line out of samba-tool domain level show. Is this just a bad message or what is triggering "Lowest function level of a DC: (Windows) 2008 R2" One of the most important things for me about Samba4 is extensibility and rfc2307 with AD and this crazy miss mash of M$ & Unix is a very rare route that allows all clients. So I would really appreciate it if somebody could spell out any gotcha's with domain functionality & schema replication. This is where I start to get confused as its with subsequent ADC's and also just the terminology that is used sometimes. So some scenario's... 1... PDC Windows 2003 with Samba4 ADC with a functional domain level of 2003. The Samba4 ADC runs Unix services which require LDAP access with rfc2307 attributes. 2003 didn't get rfc2307 until 2003r2 so this is a bit of a no go as the samba4 box will of replicated the schema from the Windows 2003 box. So I guess you could add Windows Services for UNIX Version 3.5 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=274) to the 2003 box. This will replicate a limited subset of rfc2307 to my samba4 box (anyone know the gotcha's between this and the 2008r2 rfc2307 schema) ? Then my next question is can we not add the schema requirements for 2008r2 rfc2307 to my samba4 box and just let this replicate to the 2003 box? Probably a stupid question but anyone providing solutions with Samba4 that might use linux services requiring rfc2307 has a nightmare is joining existing domains. 2003, 2008 could be really problematic and this makes the extensibility of Samba4 much less. Also I have to ask when it comes to domain provisions but what happened to 2003r2? I presume a lot of this is due to Redmond Herrings but can anyone see why I am slightly confused? Stuart -----Original message-----> From:steve <steve at steve-ss.com> > Sent: Friday 18th July 2014 11:13 > To: samba at lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: [Samba] Must Samba4 AD be provisionned with rfc2307 to use winbind ? > > On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 01:38 +0100, Stuart Naylor wrote: > > Oh I think I must of misread what you and steve where discussing. > > > > What is confusing me is the output of samba-tool domain level show > > > > Forest function level: (Windows) 2003 > > Domain function level: (Windows) 2003 > > Lowest function level of a DC: (Windows) 2008 R2 > > > > I thought it might of been because rfc2307 schema included was of 2008r2 ilk. > > > > Why does it always say the lowest function level is (Windows) 2008 R2 > > > > I just tried samba-tool domain provision --domain=SAMBA4 --adminpass=Mysamba4 --dns-backend=SAMBA_INTERNAL --server-role=dc --function-level=2003 --use-xattr=yes --realm=SAMBA4.LAN > > > > The output is the same as above. > > > > Always Lowest function level of a DC: (Windows) 2008 R2 > > > > Stuart > > Hi Stuart > The answer to your thread question is, 'no'. > This is because the schema which is supplied for use with samba4 is the > same schema that the smaba team battled with microsoft to release back a > few years back. It was the 2008R2 schema which has full support for > rfc2307. The domain level have always puzzled me too, but we've alsways > been satisfied with. The rfc2307 provision simply adds the schema > extension for sfu which was mysteriously missing. All this does is to > activate the unix tab on ADUC. On Linux with samba-tool and ldbmodify, > you don't need it. But as it seems to do no harm, you may as well have > it anyway. I don't know how it slipped through in the first place > although I guess that m$ may have had something to do with it. > Cheers, > Steve > > > >