Changes

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.

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).

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

==Adding Windows 7 Support==

==Adding Windows 7 Support==

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

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.

Any new users you add will automatically be given this additional folder, see [[bugzilla:5423|bug 5423]].

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

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