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{{Warning box| 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==
[http://www.david-harper.com/ 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 [http://www.sernet.de/ 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.
{{Note box|You may see an error message on join regarding primary DNS suffix. This doesn't seem to affect any actual functionality}}
*Log in as the 'admin' user for the first time.
{{Note box|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
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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[[Category:Howto]]
[[Category:Administration]]
{{Warning box| 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==
[http://www.david-harper.com/ 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 [http://www.sernet.de/ 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.
{{Note box|You may see an error message on join regarding primary DNS suffix. This doesn't seem to affect any actual functionality}}
*Log in as the 'admin' user for the first time.
{{Note box|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
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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[[Category:Howto]]
[[Category:Administration]]