On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Michael Wood <esiot...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What is the official plan here? >> Can the required portions for windows 8 be backported to samba 3? > > I doubt it. As far as I know recent versions of Windows will not work > with an NT-style domain at all, unless the DC is a Samba server. i.e. > you will not be able to join a Windows 8 (or 7 or maybe earlier) > machine to a Windows NT-style domain controller. So I don't think > there's some little bit of Samba 4 that could be backported to Samba 3 > to allow you to join a Windows 8 machine to the domain. More likely > there's something that needs to be fixed in Samba 3 or in Windows 8 to > get this working again. >
Can a Samba-3 Standalone server [[http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/StandAloneServer.html]] be made a member of a Samba-4 AD-DC, and then Win7 and Win8 domain clients on the same network access shares on the Samba-3 Standalone? Thank you for your help. Best, Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba