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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.}}
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{{Warning box| This howto is based upon limited testing and may cause SME Server to experience issues when backing up, installing regular updates, and upgrading to version 8 upon release. SerNet packages are NOT supported by SME Server developers. You should only use these instructions if Windows 7 support is critical for your environment.}}
  
 
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===Roaming Profiles===
 
===Roaming Profiles===
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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
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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.
  
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{{Note box|If you attempt to log in to a Windows 7 client with an account which does not yet have a corresponding .V2 profile folder, a temporary profile will be created. No settings will be saved to the server until the .V2 folder is created.}}
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This additional profile folder is automatically provisioned for existing users when installing latest version of e-smith-samba (see [[bugzilla:5425|bug 5423]]). After this point, all new user accounts have the folder created as soon as they are added.
  
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Any new users you add will automatically be given this additional folder, see [[bugzilla:5423|bug 5423]].
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{{Note box|If version 2 profile folders are not available, Windows 7 will create a temporary profile when you log in. Should you experience this problem, make sure that your SME Server installation is fully up to date.}}
  
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For existing users, you will need to add the folder manually:
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Version 2 profiles are not compatible with Windows XP an earlier versions. If you have mixed environments you will be required to maintain two separate profiles for each user.
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cd /home/e-smith/files/samba/profiles
 
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mkdir <myuser>.v2
 
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chown -R <myuser>.<myuser> <myuser>.v2
 
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chmod -R 700 <myuser>.v2
 
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Replace <myuser> with each user account name in turn.
 
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For the admin user only, the v2 profile folder is created automatically when logging in to a client machine. In this case, you should secure the folder to prevent unauthorised access by other users:
 
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cd /home/e-smith/files/samba/profiles
 
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==Source Code==
 
==Source Code==

Revision as of 12:35, 14 March 2011

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The instructions on this page require a basic knowledge of linux.


Warning.png Warning:
This howto is based upon limited testing and may cause SME Server to experience issues when backing up, installing regular updates, and upgrading to version 8 upon release. SerNet packages are NOT supported by SME Server developers. 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


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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.


Important.png 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.

This additional profile folder is automatically provisioned for existing users when installing latest version of e-smith-samba (see bug 5423). After this point, all new user accounts have the folder created as soon as they are added.


Important.png Note:
If version 2 profile folders are not available, Windows 7 will create a temporary profile when you log in. Should you experience this problem, make sure that your SME Server installation is fully up to date.


Version 2 profiles are not compatible with Windows XP an earlier versions. If you have mixed environments you will be required to maintain two separate profiles for each user.

Source Code

SerNet publishes the source code for their latest Samba build at http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.5/src/rpm/

Code for older builds is also available at http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/old/src/rpm/

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