On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 17:00 +1300, Pieter De Wit wrote: > Hi list, > > I have tried with all my might to get a samba3 server (Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS) to > join a Windows 2003 domain as a member server, without any luck. I have > used,from memory, the official way of doing this (aka, from the samba.org > website). No matter what settings I use in smb.conf, the server always joins > as a domain controller. This doesn't seem to break the domain how ever. All I > am after is that my users do not need to enter a username/password for access > from a domain PC to shares on my Linux box. > > Any pointers please or is this intended as the server does single sign?
If you can list exactly the steps you took, we might be able to help. But to answer your question: Yes, Samba will happily join Windows 2003 as a domain member. The key command is 'net ads join'. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
