How do I join a samba domain with windows 7?

[Evilhugbear]

Hello, I am trying to join our samba domain at home, and it just keeps saying unable to join x domain. The specified domain does not exist or could not be contacted.

Any help?

 

[H2SO4]

You join it like any other Windows domain. The samba host is pretending to be an AD domain controller (AD). Hence, it needs to expose the same DC-related DNS (SRV) records, the same sysvol share, policies...

 

[Evilhugbear]

The samba host is pretending to be a domain controller. Windows xp and windows vista can join the domain just fine, its just windows 7 that doesn't want to join.

 

[H2SO4]

The samba host is pretending to be a domain controller. Windows xp and windows vista can join the domain just fine, its just windows 7 that doesn't want to join.

A packet trace would be the quickest and most deteministic way to find out why (www.wireshark.com).

If you want assistance with trace analysis, upload it here (zipped up) and I or others can help.

 

[Jordus]

Try this

GGTSdotNET » Blog Archive » Joining a Windows 7 system to a Samba domain

 

[kegobeer]

Or, you can try this:

Windows 7 can see Samba Shares but cannot see Samba Domain