Hi,
1) We needed to upgrade to a newer version of Samba to be able to talk to Windows Server 2008 R2 (R2 made some significant changes over straight 2008, according to our Windows admins, so R1 or straight 2008
interesting - do you have more details about this - as we have still quite an old SAMBA talking quite happily to 2008 servers.
2) We needed to change our smb.conf. The config that worked with Server 2003 seems to not work with 2008 R2.
..likewise...do you have the actual configuration items (example perhaps?) of this file - as we kept ours the same as what we had for 2000/2003 and its fine too.... is there some explicit option that must now be present?
You *must* start Samba (i.e. nmbd and smbd) before winbind. If you start
yes - the distro startup scripts should do this by default...they are broken if they dont. winbindd should be a dependant of smbd/nmbd thanks for the update! alan