Topic: W7 join a SME8 domain

[nicolatiana]

slooow ? 
 
Nicola

[stephdl]

slooow ? 
 
Nicola

according to this bug report

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7332

[newburns]

http://wiki.contribs.org/Windows_7_Support#Slow_login_with_win7_to_sme8_domain
It seems this may not be a supported action by the head honchos. It has been drilled in my head by my mentors (CharlieBrady, Stephono, Mary, Burnat?) that you should never use the repository SME-Testing. If it has not been rolled out into the standard updates, it is for developemnt purposes only.
Is this method accepted?
If so, why hasn't the change been rolled into proper updates?
I have a production system, and I fear messing it up by human error. However, I have extremely slow logins, and would like that resolved.
As for now, the latest update is only

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e-smith-samba             noarch   2.2.0-53.el5.sme         smeupdates   101 knot the -54.el5 you are requesting

[engdev]

We have many W7 users connecting to SME8 domain & fortunately not had any slow logins but I've always amended the client registry as per the instructions in the 'Windows 7 Performance and Time Registry settings ' section here https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7 To date I haven't adjusted anything on the server.

[newburns]

It does not say what file is adjusted with that change.
How do you implement that change? It just states that the settings were shared.
Is that one complete bat file that should be ran?

[dvdsmith]

It does not say what file is adjusted with that change.
How do you implement that change? It just states that the settings were shared.
Is that one complete bat file that should be ran?

All the package does is modify a .reg file stored on the server.  The .reg file is run by the client PC, merging the changes into the windows registry.  Honestly, the wiki shows you the content of the file, so running the package isn't really necessary.  Just create a text file, paste in the registry data from the wiki, rename the extension to .reg, at the client double-click on the .reg and merge it into the registry.  The last line of the .reg fixes the slow login issue. If this is confusing, you really should become familiar with registry .reg file.  Hope this helps.

[engdev]

Following the SME wiki http://wiki.contribs.org/Windows_7_Support#Join_a_SME_Server_8.0_Domain_with_Win7 you will add these 2 values to the 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManWorkstation\Parameters' registry key:

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManWorkstation\Parameters]
"DNSNameResolutionRequired"=dword:00000000
"DomainCompatibilityMode"=dword:00000001
To make further changes to the registry you need to navigate through the directory tree to find the correct key (be careful as many key locations look the same with only very minor differences). For instance, to add these values:

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System]
       "SlowLinkDetectEnabled"=dword:00000000
       "DeleteRoamingCache"=dword:00000001
       "WaitForNetwork"=dword:00000000
       "CompatibleRUPSecurity"=dword:00000001you navigate to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System' in the directory tree and with 'system' highlighted in the tree, right click on it and select 'new/DWORD (32-bit) value'. You then copy the 'SlowLinkDetectEnabled' text into the name field and enter zero in the value data field. Repeat for the other 3 values in the above list.

[newburns]

However, in order to do the proper change, you must have the listed Samba version which comes from SME-Testing
http://wiki.contribs.org/Windows_7_Support#Join_a_SME_Server_8.0_Domain_with_Win7

[engdev]

I'm only offering my personal experience in case it helps. As I said before I've not made any changes to the server, it's running vanilla SME 8, the updates testing repository is disabled.

[stephdl]

However, in order to do the proper change, you must have the listed Samba version which comes from SME-Testing
http://wiki.contribs.org/Windows_7_Support#Join_a_SME_Server_8.0_Domain_with_Win7

if you are anxious you can wait some time and the new version of the package will comes without efforts.
by the way it is not sme-testing but smeupdates-testing, so the repository before smeupdates repo.

[dvdsmith]

Ran a test earlier. SME 8.0 server, no contribs, using package e-smith-samba-2.2.0-53.el5.sme, not e-smith-samba-2.2.0-54.el5.sme from sme-testing.  Applied old .reg (from server) to Win7pro workstation, joined it to samba domain.  After merging the updated .reg (created manual) to client registry, login time dropped by 25sec.  Only difference was the last line of the .reg file.  So, running the test package is apparently unnecessary.  Did I miss something?

[stephdl]

Ran a test earlier. SME 8.0 server, no contribs, using package e-smith-samba-2.2.0-53.el5.sme, not e-smith-samba-2.2.0-54.el5.sme from sme-testing.  Applied old .reg (from server) to Win7pro workstation, joined it to samba domain.  After merging the updated .reg (created manual) to client registry, login time dropped by 25sec.  Only difference was the last line of the .reg file.  So, running the test package is apparently unnecessary.  Did I miss something?

It seems to me that the new .reg needs to be activated in case of slow login (by a db command). Effectively if you read the bug report mostly of us do not need this trick so it is not activated by default.
However i'm not the best to speak about windows i'm just a man who reads bug reports against documentation and makes what he can to solve them.