Logins against AD failing in *most* cases. Can see why, but don't*understand* why.

[Alan Buxey]

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