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cannot join windows vista business to samba domain

Asked by: D_wathi

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I have rhel5 working as samba domain controller , of samba 3.0.33 version all the systems of win2k and winxp pro able to join the domain controller but windows vista business iam not able to connect i tried with local policy security with network security lan manager authentication level by changing to use NTLM v2 sesson security if negotiated
2. also enabled netbios over tcp ip

still iam not able to join the windows vista business to linux samba domain, please help me on this. Thanks in advance.

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2009-08-18 at 00:36:20ID24660603
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Samba File Server

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Windows Vista

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Samba File Sharing

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Answers

 

by: techniousPosted on 2009-08-18 at 05:01:52ID: 25122215

Vista, by default doesn't allow the use of NTLM responses. Samba uses NTLM. Try this:

http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270746

 

by: it4sohoPosted on 2009-08-22 at 07:11:02ID: 25158735

The above article recommends changing your Vista security settings... I do NOT recommend that... especially if you're in an enterprise environment where there are likely MULTIPLE Vista systems and only one (or two?) Samba systems.

The MOST common issue is that Samba Domain Controllers aren't used to having to be WINS servers, nor provide multiple other service & lookup requests that an AD controller usually does.

The easy fix is to run winbind (actually, winbindd)... even though you're not connected to an AD server.

As no one has mentioned it here on E-E yet, I'll add it here -- if you're planning an early adoption of Windows 7, don't yet -- Windows 7 cannot join an NT type domain (Windows NT, Windows Server 2000 in compatibility mode, or Samba 3) AT ALL so far... Microsoft is aware of the issue, and has said they'll fix it in Windows 7 eventually -- but for now, it just won't work (no clue as to whether Windows 7 will join a Samba 4 AD yet! :-))

I hope this helps!

Dan
IT4SOHO

 

by: it4sohoPosted on 2009-08-22 at 07:36:20ID: 25158813

OOPS... I meant to include some tips on HOW to start winbindd!

All you need to do is include it in your startup script -- and the code may already be there, you'll just need to modify it so that it runs winbindd.

For SOME distributions (like RHEL, Fedora, & CentOS), winbindd just runs as a separate service (obviously dependent upon the samba service!)... and in these instances, just run:
  chkconfig winbind on
  service winbind start
(NOTE the single d on the end)

For other distributions, you may prefer (as I do) to embed winbind into your samba startup script...

NOTES:
 - winbindd uses the same config script as samba (/etc/samba/smb.conf, or whatever your distro uses, or whatever you put in your build).
 - winbind, like smbd (but not nmbd) can reload with a -HUP signal

This should resolve your Vista on Samba PDC issue....

Good Luck!

Dan
IT4SOHO

 

by: sleepless6Posted on 2009-09-30 at 00:01:49ID: 25456159

have you updated your samba to the latest version? I know older versions of samba would not allow vista machine to connect due to the higher level of security on the vista machine

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