I have a how-to on my website [url]http://www.opensourcehowto.org[/url] for setting up samba as a primary domain controller (PDC) maybe your answer will be there
OpenLDAP LAM Samba as PDC [url]http://www.opensourcehowto.org/how-to/samba/openldap-lam-samba-as-pdc.html[/url] and if you feeling a little bit more adventurous later on you could try getting into the policies with samba Samba Primary Domain Controller with Group Policies [url]http://www.opensourcehowto.org/how-to/samba/samba-primary-domain-controller-with-group-policies.html[/url] >> Of course you don't need that to join the machine into the domain (you >> just >> need root and its smbpassword). But last year when I started creating a >> PDC >> (samba-3.0.20b-3.3) with LDAP backend (of course it has nothing to do >> with >> LDAP), I found out that I could not login into the computer (the >> domain). >> But after I'd configure that Domain member matters, I could. It was even >> stated in samba.org tutorial, if I'm not mistaken, but they prefer >> changing >> the registry. > > If you had to change that registry setting with version 3 of Samba, then > you had something else wrong in your setup (probabloy ldap related) > causing that problem. According to Andrew Bartlett, this has never been > required for any released version of Samba3. > > In fact, apparently this is a major security risk to your network to > disable this setting: > > http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-November/113748.html > > This workaround hasn't been needed for a long time, although I don't > recall the specific version that fixed the need for it. > > -- > > Best regards, > > Charles > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- OpenSourceHowTo.org [url]http://www.opensourcehowto.org/[/url] Wiki.OpenSourceHowTo.org [url]http://wiki.opensourcehowto.org/[/url] My ServerSetup Scripts [url]http://evilperson85.110mb.com[/url] Please Support OpenSourceHowTo.org [url]http://www.opensourcehowto.org/how-to/welcome/support-opensourcehowto.org.html[/url] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
