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

On 1/12/2015 10:47 PM, avinesh saini wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld at
samba.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Samba DCs
>
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for your responses.
> In our setup samba version is 3.6. Can you please let me know if samba 3.6
> supports domain/forest functional levels or if there is any impact, when
> samba acts as Domain Controller.
>
>
samba 3.6 can only act as a domain controller for NT networks. You need 
to run samba 4.x to get W2k and above domain controller capabilities.

Thanks.

Following is our understanding, Please confirm.

Samba 3.6 when configured as Domain Controller, works up to Windows NT
domain/forest functional level.


Regards,
Avinesh

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 6:02 AM, Christopher Chan <
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>
> On 1/12/2015 10:47 PM, avinesh saini wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld at
samba.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Samba DCs
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thank you for your responses.
>> In our setup samba version is 3.6. Can you please let me know if samba
3.6
>> supports domain/forest functional levels or if there is any impact,
when
>> samba acts as Domain Controller.
>>
>>
>>  samba 3.6 can only act as a domain controller for NT networks. You
need
> to run samba 4.x to get W2k and above domain controller capabilities.
>
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Am 14.01.2015 um 13:02 schrieb avinesh saini:
> Following is our understanding, Please confirm.
> 
> Samba 3.6 when configured as Domain Controller, works up to Windows NT
> domain/forest functional level.
Wrong. An NT4 domain had no functional levels. This is something out of
the AD world.


Samba 3.6 can only work as an NT4-style Primary Domain Controller (PDC)
and also as a Member Server in an AD and NT4-domain. But all of this
doesn't have anything to do with functional levels out of Samba 3.6 view.


Regards,
Marc