[Samba] can windows server 2012 R2 join samba ad directly

Andrew Bartlett
Sat, 19 Mar 2022 04:57:56 -0000

On Sat, 2022-03-19 at 09:24 +0800, Adam Xu via samba
wrote:
> Hi samba list,
>
> accroding to samba wiki,
>
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Joining_a_Windows_Server_2012_/_2012_R2_DC_to_a_Samba_AD
>
> Windows server 2012 R2 can't join to samba AD directly. I need to join
a
> windows server 2018 R2 to samba AD first and then join windows server
> 2012 R2 to samba AD.
>
> but a searched for a document.
>
https://samba.tranquil.it/doc/en/samba_advanced_methods/samba_add_windows_active_directory.html
>
> In that document, we can join windows server 2012 R2 to samba directly.
>
> Which document is more reliable? My samba version is 4.15.6.

Why not try it?

If it works, update the wiki. ?

It's the weekend, so this is just from memory, but while we did a pile
of work on our 'adprep' reimplementation (using the public script files
MS published, thanks MS!), to allow this, and before that recommended
going via a MS server to run their adprep, Microsoft fixed some bugs we
alerted them to.

That I understand now allows a join directly.

Andrew Bartlett

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