On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 02:27:28PM -0500, Dale Schroeder wrote: > Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >>> Can someone please give me some direction on where to start, we are >>> looking to setup a pdc and bdc with an ldap backend, if that is still >>> possible. >>> >> >> It is very possible to create an NT4 domain PDC and that works well fo >> what it is. But it is hard to believe you'd want to setup an NT4 domain >> these days: it won't work at all with Windows 7, and Vista ignores the >> old policy mechanism (ntconfig.pol). > It's been a week since this statement was made by Mr. Williams, and I > have seen no one contradict it. > > I've read this thread: > http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2009-February/063187.html > and I've read the 3.3.1 release notes, both of which offer some hope, > but no official rebuttal has been made to this point. > > So, does Windows 7 mark the end of the Samba-3 DC, or will a workaround > be forthcoming prior to the release of Windows 7? > With apologies to Mr. Spock, I'm hoping that it will "live long and > prosper"!
Microsoft has been working with us to get Windows 7 to join a Samba3 DC, so hopefully by the time Win7 ships (and the appropriate version of Samba) it should work. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
