Topic: Samba 4 client against Samba 3 PDC - Possible ?

[nicolatiana]

Hi
Among my customers I manage a network with Xubuntu 12.04 clients authenticating against a SME 8.1 PDC.
Last week a couple of inattentive users have accepted to upgrade to 14.04: as a result they were no more able to authenticate against SME.
Not a lot of time to troubleshoot (I simply tried to rejoin the client - no result) and not a drama to install from scratch 12.04 so I quickly did a new install.
Just to start understanding some more thing about Samba 4 I found a lot of scenarios about Samba 4 server but a few about clients.
Can we figure that a Samba 4 client has no chance to join to a NT-Style PDC or simply I've not found the right tweaks ?
In the mean time I'll try to build on Proxmox a test env.

Nicola

[CharlieBrady]

Can we figure that a Samba 4 client has no chance to join to a NT-Style PDC or simply I've not found the right tweaks ?

I don't know. I think a samba specific forum would be a better place to ask the question. Or ask google.

[Stefano]

Nicola, I would agree with Charlie but, incredibile dictu (cfr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_%28I%29), Google seems not to have an answer..
try on samba's ML and, of course, let us know, TIA

[Daniel B.]

I'd switch the Xubuntu clients to LDAP auth against SME, using sssd. No need to enabled anything on the SME itself, everything will work out-of-the-box, and for the clients, I have some notes on my wiki here https://wikit.firewall-services.com/doku.php/tuto/ipasserelle/authentification/ubuntu_sssd_on_sme (sorry it's in french, but I think you can find your way).