On 04/28/2012 08:18 AM, Alain Péan wrote:
Le 25/04/2012 01:01, Andrew Reis a écrit :
I've been running into the problem of clients using Windows 7 with CentOS 5.X and file/printer sharing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the stand samba-3.0.33-x.x.x packages DO NOT provide compatibility with Windows Vista/7. I've had to manually compile samba from source or use the samba3x packages to fix the problem. Just wondering if we're ever going to have the NTLMv2 subroutines compiled into the update/centosplus repo packages.
Hi Andrew,
On my CentOS 5.x > 5.6 machines, I removed standard samba, 3.0.33, and installed samba3x (3.5.6 at the time I did it first), for this very same reason.
I don't want to compile anything if I can avoid it, and use the supported packages from the distribution, that provides updates for it.
There are 2 options for Windows 7 support that I recommend.
The first is what Alain recommended ... there is a samba-3x version that is part of CentOS-5. The current version is:
samba3x-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.src.rpm
That is a good option, and it will be supported with updates for the lifetime of EL5.
Another option if you want to use the smb2 protocol (the one that is used in Windows-7, 8, and Windows Server 2008 and is included in samba-4 and samba-3.6.x) then you can use enterprisesamba.org
http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.6/rhel/5/
I have personally used samba-3.6.x (and the standard LDAP in CentOS-5) for the last 7 months from enterprisesamba.org for $work for a Windows domain directory services without any major issues. (a domain for more than 300 users and interconnected across several US states)
Info on smb2:
http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.0.html
Thanks, Johnny Hughes