Topic: SMEserver with Domain/Workgroup Split

[scottieg99]

Hi guys,

I have a SMEServer 8 setup and have the Workgroup and Domain Controller box check marked. We have some windows XP home premium Windows XP pro, Windows 7 home premium and Windows 7 pro users.

My plan was to setup the windows home premium to be on the WORKGROUP and all the windows pro will be on the DOMAIN.

Can anyone tell me if this is the best idea or should I leave them both on the WORKGROUP?

A few things I want - Managed print server, File share with group permissions, ability to reset passwords.

Thanks!

[janet]

scottieg99

I would join the Pro machines to the DOMAIN as that sets up the trust relationship between all those workstations and the sme server resources. You can use the netlogon.bat file on the server to automatically map ibays, printers etc at login time.
The Home machines can only be part of the same WORKGROUP, so keep your DOMAIN name & WORKGROUP name the same. On the Home machines create individual netlogon.bat files & place them in the Windows StartUp folder so server resources get automatically mapped when you login. It's been a few years since I used Home machines on a sme server acting as Domain Controller, but from my memory I think you have to manually login to the sme server the first time during every session if you request access to any server resources. Also IIRC you will need to add Home users both to the local Home workstation(s) and to the sme server, so that the Windows login credential is recognised by the server for resource sharing ie user & group permissions etc.

It should all work OK.

[scottieg99]

Hi Janet

Ok I just wanted to verify.

I will infact leave the pro users on the domain and home users on the workgroup.

One weird thing I still can't figure out which I think you may or may not have replied to in a different topic was my win 7 pro domain users don't get drives mapped automatically but my win xp pro does.

Currently I have my win 7 pro win 7 home and xp home all manually mapping network drives in the start menu and the xp pro is the only box getting it automatically.

Not a huge issue but a definite let down.

[Stefano]

One weird thing I still can't figure out which I think you may or may not have replied to in a different topic was my win 7 pro domain users don't get drives mapped automatically but my win xp pro does.

this should be posted in bugzilla

thank you

[scottieg99]

Do you mind linking me?

[Stefano]

http://bugs.contribs.org/

[janet]

scottieg99

Also look at all the links at the top of Forum pages, which includes a link to bugzilla !

IIRC I also suggested you install Win7 on a real box with a real NIC & see if that joins the domain OK & maps drives as per the sme server located netlogin.bat file. Suspect possible issues with VM & NICs.

I also implied that you may need to disable smb2, and that by looking at the Win8 domain joining & login issues refer forum & bug reports, you could see the registry setting to change. I'm not sure if this needed, I am not near my Window setup notes.

I would also suggest you do not use the smeserver netlogon contrib while troubleshooting (ie remove it for now), and just manually edit the netlogon.bat file that is on sme server. Look in /home/e-smith/files/samba/netlogon
Remember it needs to be a Windows formatted file, so create & save it on Windows using Notepad text editor & copy it to the correct location on the server & change ownership & permissions to suitable values.
If you edit this file on Linux, you need to run unix2dos command to fix formatting etc.