[SOLVED] Windows 7 not connecting to My Linux Fredora Domain pls help

[AndreBotha]

Hallo

I need some help conneting my windows 7 Computer to my Linux Fredora Domain without Upgrading Samba . can anyone please help me .

Thanks

[HROAdmin26]

Help how? You have not listed:

- Your Samba version
- Your Windows 7 version
- Your Samba config
- What steps you initially took
- What errors resulted
- What troubleshooting has been done
- What results troubleshooting showed

A Google search for "windows 7 samba domain" immediately leads to the Samba website where the version of Samba and changes to Windows 7 are noted.

[zaktalanos]

if he won't elaborate, then I will.

I have the same problem running the domain controller on a fedora 10 box running 3.2.11 samba and there seem to be no newer samba releases on default yum repos. (even after a quick google search)

a direct source compile and install from the latest samba (3.4) packages places all the lovely bin files totally in the wrong places and causes more poop than I'm prepared to face this morning. So I'm looking around for other rpm's that will make my life easier.

unless anyone knows what I should be doing?

(I have tried to compile samba with the sbin directory option, no help there)

someone can point me in the right direction?

[guus.leeuw.jr]

Well first of all you will need Samba 3.3.7 or Samba 3.4.0 for your distro or compiled from sources.

For zaktalanos, you will need to install the source RPM for the samba version on fedora 10, and check the spec file to see how fedora compiled the samba version on fedora 10. Then you can use these compilation settings for the new version compiled by hand.

Make sure you apply the "Windows7 - SambaWiki" before you try to join a Samba 3.3.7+ or Samba.3.4.x domain.

Regards,
Guus

[zaktalanos]

actually, I've just sorted it. thanks guus.

I couldn't find any rpm's for the fedora 10 so I was naughty and used the packages for fedora 11. they put the files exactly where they need to be and works with minimal rpm dependency.

I went to the is ftp site and downloaded all the samba 3.3 files except swat

ok, the damn site won't let me post url's cos I'm not cool enough. fine.

any repo site with fedora 11 should have the packages needed. just browse for samba 3.3 fedora 11 rpm files. get them all except swat.

then I had to get this:

again, url crap, but you need to get a libtdb-1.1.3-14.fc11.i586.rpm rpm file

I then removed all the samba that was on my system

yum remove samba samba-winbind

then I installed everything samba that I had downloaded:

rpm -Uvh samba*.rpm

it's working now.

[guus.leeuw.jr]

Good, Zaktalanos, that it is sorted.

I wasn't too sure that one could easily apply packages from upgrade level fedora distros. Sometimes they start requiring new glibc or libc packages which might break the rest of the system.