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Bind Windows 7 to Snow Leopard Server

I tried binding a Windows 7 (beta) to our Snow leopard PDC/BDC domain after making two changes to the security policy the apple suggested ( http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3742) and the local policy: Network Security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP Based (including secure RPC) Clients (and servers) to no minimum (disabled 128 bit).

Still I get no logon servers, yet xp and vista machines (last I checked) bind just fine.

any ideas? any hints on the troubleshooting tools from the windows 7 machine that might indicate the disconnect would be great.

XSERVE, Mac OS X (10.6.1), OD/SMB/Win2k/XP

Posted on Oct 16, 2009 6:30 AM

53 replies

Apr 8, 2011 11:09 AM in response to ndangelo

One of the schools that I support just purchased twenty Acer NetBooks with Windoze 7 Starter installed, which as I understand it is not compatible with the version of Samba running on OS X servers. So I am using the pGina with the LDAPAuth plugin to authenticate to a Mac OS X 10.5.8 Open Directory server. The only real problem I have run into so far (haven't tried to map network drives yet) is when I attempt to login with an OD network account. Nothing happens when I enter the username and password information and click on the login button. If I click on switch user after attempting the login, log in as a local admin user then log back out, the network user account then appears as a user account and authenticates using the network OD/LDAP settings. There will be approximately 120 students sharing these devises and I don't want the teacher to have to login as a local admin each time a new user needs to login with their network account.

Anyone using pGina with the LDAPauth plugin? Or have another solution for getting Windoze 7 to authenticate in an OD environment?

Any assistance greatly appreciated.

Rick Davis

Jun 15, 2011 2:20 AM in response to charman

I working perfectly great, but it's not save the user profile data on Mac OS X Server at all.

knappk

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Sep 2, 2011 4:13 PM in response to charman

Have you done anything with Samba? I am struggling with a 64-bit Win 7 lab and came across this after this at https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7:

Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 using Samba Domain Controllers has been added to the following versions:

Samba 3.4 or later
Samba 3.3.5 or later
Samba 3.3.2, 3.3.3 and 3.3.4 (with NOTES)
Samba 3.2.12 or later

We successfully tested Windows 7 Ultimate (Build 2600) with Samba 3.4.0, Samba 3.3.7, Samba 3.3.5, Samba 3.3.2, Samba 3.2.15, Samba 3.2.12 and other versions. Also tested Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with Samba 3.5.6.

If you use older versions, Windows 7 box still can join the Samba Domain but after rebooting, you will receive an error message: "the trust relation between this workstation and the primary domain failed" and no one can logon as any domain user.

-- Monyo 16:22, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Does anyone know how to get past the error regarding the trust relationship????

dmare

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Sep 5, 2011 5:47 PM in response to ndangelo

How has the situation changed in Lion Server?

Sep 7, 2011 4:40 PM in response to charman

@Charman,

Thank you for the detailed post. I got it to work. However, I can't seem to get a print queue added to the client machine with Windows 7 and pGina.

@Anybody in this Community

Anybody using Open Directory, Windows 7, pGina, and PaperCut together?

denmoff

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Sep 19, 2011 11:53 AM in response to themacfan

What problems are you having with your print queue? I'm using printers that print thru a PaperCut server. Doesn't seem to be an issue with Windows 7. It's just setting up an LPD printer. (eg. http://papercutserver:631/printers/[printqueuename])

Jul 8, 2012 10:45 AM in response to charman

Hello and thanks for all your helpful information.

I went ahead and configured everything as described including Windows registry updates. Windows 7 Pro is successfully joined in my domain. I also downloaded LDAPManager and did as you described and it all works. I can find cn=users in the root path and can see all the users.

However, whenever I try to login on Windows 7 Pro machine using pGina I get a message "Incorrect Username/Password".

Any other suggestions? Please advise.

Thank you,

Martin

Aug 1, 2012 10:56 AM in response to Martin R. Lerch

Had posted this answer to another thread today. I think this one will answer your question on configuring pGina.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4162954?tstart=0

Bind Windows 7 to Snow Leopard Server