On 06/06/2012 08:45 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 06/06/2012 08:33 AM, John Doe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> any one has successfully joined a Windows 7 workstation to a samba (3.0.33) domain on CentOS 5.8? >> I am wondering if I need to install a newer version (from sernet by example) or if I can keep the old one and try harder... >> > 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. should have said: yum list samba3x\* -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120606/0606b269/attachment-0004.sig>