Windows 7 Support

	Skill level: medium
	The instructions on this page require a basic knowledge of linux.

	Warning:
	This howto is based upon limited testing and may cause SME Server to experience issues when updating and/or upgrading to version 8 upon release. You should only use these instructions if Windows 7 support is critical for your environment.

Author

David Harper

Background

Windows 7 was released in October 2009. Due to changes in the way that trust relationships are established with domain controllers, older versions of Samba do not allow Windows 7 clients to log in once joined to a domain.

Although an upstream fix was made available for SME 8 beta (based on CentOS 5, see ~~bug 5425~~), there is no comparable fix available from the upstream vendor for SME 7.x (based on CentOS 4).

Adding Windows 7 Support

Thanks to SerNet, SME 7 users can now install an updated version of Samba which fixes the domain trust issues.

Installation

Add the SerNet repository for CentOS 4.x

db yum_repositories set SerNet repository \
 BaseURL http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.5/centos/4 \
 EnableGroups yes \
 GPGCheck no \
 Name 'SerNet Samba Team packages (CentOS 4)' \
 Visible yes \
 status enabled
signal-event yum-modify

Update SME Server - the new Samba packages will install automatically.

yum update
signal-event post-upgrade ; signal-event reboot

Configuring Clients

Install the Windows 7 registry patch from http://yourserver/server-resources/
Add the client machine to the domain as normal.

	Note:
	You may see an error message on join regarding primary DNS suffix. This doesn't seem to affect any actual functionality

	Note:
	You may see an error message when logging in for the first time. This appears to be a once off timeout issue which does not recur.

Roaming Profiles

Windows 7 clients require that a version 2 profile folder exist in the profiles$ share, which on SME Server is located in /home/e-smith/files/samba/profiles

Any new users you add will automatically be given this additional folder, see ~~bug 5423~~.

For existing users, you will need to add the folder manually:

cd /home/e-smith/files/samba/profiles
mkdir <myuser>.v2
chown -R <myuser>.<myuser> <myuser>.v2
chmod -R 700 <myuser>.v2

Replace <myuser> with the each user account name.

For the admin user only, the v2 profile folder is created automatically. In this case, you should secure the folder to prevent unauthorised access by other users:

cd /home/e-smith/files/samba/profiles
chown -R admin.admin admin.v2
chmod -R 700 admin.v2

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