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Hopefully a quick question. My Windows AD administrator is moving to Windows 2008R and is about to switch off the last Windows 2003 domain controller. He also wants to switch off the compatible WINS and NETBIOS off as well. Does samba 3 work in this environment or do I need to tell him to keep then working? Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Watkins * Birkbeck, University of Londo...

Hi, After upgrading the Windows DCs from Windows 2003R2 to Windows 2008R, the domain functional level was raised from Windows 2000 to Windows 2008R2. As a consequence of this action, I found that a Application Management GPO no longer worked pushing applications to the companies desktops. After some tweaking I found out in one MS document that a Windows 2008R2 dom...

...=> no need of nmbd on AD DC. Nmbd will be run on file servers which serve files for Windows computers. > That's just my own point of view, built according to own understanding of Samba. That means I can be really far from the original "why" : ) I know many people who has AD DC 2008R, even 2003R2 at working position. And people who is connected to its DCs or servered by it very active uses Windows analogue of nmb functionality (built-in in Windows of course) in their LANs. I will remember, that nmbd in addition makes server visible in Network Neighborhood, in some points takes...

...> I created GPO's for home directory, roaming profiles and folder > redirection > and verified these. > > Yesterday I fired up a Debian 12 and joined this as a DC. First > attempt > failed due to schema incompatibility (known issue). I downgraded the > MS > schema to 2008R2 and after that the join was successful. I presume you mean the functional level. With the correct options, it should work. See the release notes. > From what I can see, replication also works as it should. I then > tested to > transfer roles back and forth between Samba and MS, and t...

Hai, After lots of testing and checking today im must concluded that achim and mathias are right. There are "BUILDIN\" security groups which make some GPOs are going wrong. Also, im getting errors again with sysvolcheck. .. i was in the understanding this was resolved.. but im but off with all info, very buzy at the office atm. samba-tool ntacl sysvolcheck ERROR(<class