From: Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org
Indeed you do new a newer version of samba that 3.0.x to join a Windows-7 (or Windows 2008 Server) PC to the domain.
You need at least version samba 3.2.12 or higher. You also need two registry entries on the machine. See this link:
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7
You do not HAVE to use the sernet/enterprisesamba.org though, there is a samba3x included in CentOS-5.8 that works just fine too:
do this to see the packages:
yum list samba-3x*
If you would like to try the smb2 protocol ... then you might try getting samba 3.6.x from enterprisesamba.org for CentOS-5:
http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.6/rhel/5/
If you are not interested in smb2, then the samba3-3.5.x packages from CentOS should be fine.
Ah, forgot about the 3x packages. Thx for the info!
JD