Creating a trust between a Samba DC and a Windows Server 20008 DC

[ronanian]

I'm not hugely a Microsoft networking guy, and now it's really beginning to show.

Existing condition: Linux with Samba running as Domain Controller. A Windows 2003 box on its own domain with a trust to the other domain is our major file server.

Now I've put together a new server running Windows Server 2008, and I am just terrible at microsoft domains and such. I tried to set it up on its own domain, figuring I could make it work like the old server, but I can't get the trust to work.

Any suggestions?

[Geoff]

What version of Samba are you using?

[ronanian]

Version 3.0.20b

I read something about the latest version adding support for 2008, but I set the new server to run at 2003 functional level, or so I thought. Later I realized that there are two settings for that, one for the forest and one for the domain. Perhaps I need to start again, and set up the domain functional level at 2003...

[Geoff]

See this thread:

W2k8 Domain and Samba

[ronanian]

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, that one is the opposite of what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to make the Windows machine join the domain*, not the Linux machine.

* ...or have its own domain + a trust, or something similar...

[ronanian]

Nevermind. I managed to get it joined to the domain. Turns out I made a small error the first time I tried, and decided to go in a different direction (separate domain with a trust) and spent too much time on that. Going back to trying to make it join did the job.

Thanks!