Samba with Active Directory

[Peter Brimacombe]

The MS Windows support group have just starting using Active Directory. With the new setup I could not get Samba to work - the old tricks didn't work - in the past they would delete the unix clients on their PDC and then add them - then I would enter the smbpasswd command. This is described as "Adding a Samba server to a Windows NT Domain" page 171 in Using Samba, First Edition by Eckstein, Collier-Brown and Kelly.

But the Support Group and I did get it to work. First step was to add my unix servers as static entries in their WinServer then I changed security = domain to security = server. Everything is working as before

[Stefan Schulz · Accepted solution]

Hi Peter,

i found something in the docs that might be interesting for you:

Can a samba server join a Win2000 domain ?

Yes, a samba server, (2.0.7, 2.2 or Head) will join and be part of a
Win2000 domain as long as the Win2000 PDC has NetBios and NTLMv1
enabled. You don't need a 'mixed mode' DC unless there is also a NT4
BDC in the domain. Samba will not particate in a 'Native Win2000'
Active Directory controlled domain.

Found in the document http://de.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/textdocs/samba-pdc-faq.txt

I will face the same "problem" in the near future. Could you please tell me if this is somehow usefull?

Thanks and Regards

Stefan

[Peter Brimacombe]

Thank you Stefan - your reply is usefull - I will pass it on to our Windows support group and ask them if they want to try it.