Hello,
The problem of join a pdc domain with windows clients is solved.
There is a difference with previous releases of Zentyal ( 1.0 > 2.2 )
In the release 3.0.xx there are a few other definition needed on windows clients:
I have done the test to join windows clients with zentyal server office release 3.0.10 64 bit.
On the windows clients there are two settings needed
1 )In the configuration window > configuration > system > modify computername or domain.
Select member of domain, fill in the fqdn ( full qualifyed domain name ).
FQDN example : domainname.lan or domainname.be or domainname.nl , not the netbios domainname. Where domainname the name is you have given to the PDC domain.
2 ) In the configuration window > network center > network adapter settings, select TCP/IP protocol propertys prefered DNS address add ip address of the zentyal server and also add the ip address of the dns server of your internet provider.
For windows clients windows 7 and windows 8 , adapt the registry by dubbelclick on the file ebox-win7.reg ( file provided by zentyal in this forum ).
Now you can join the windows client to your domain.
So the are two major differences to join a domain with a Samba4 PDC , enter the FQDM name in he menu on the client ( menu to make client member of a domain ) instead of the netbios domain name ( domain name whitout extention ).
The definitions of the network adapter of the client must have fix DNS ip addresses instead of dynamic DNS, fix DNS ip address of the zentyal PDC and DNS ip of the internet provider. Also fill in the ip address of the zentyal server in the WINS definitions of the network adapter.
Be shure that the zentyal PDC server is also DNS server.
I have done the test with Windows clients XP windows 7 and windows 8 it work perfect. Also new is that now automaticly the H: dive on the client is connected to the logged on user, the is no need of the special loginscript to detect the version of windows of the client.
Ticket #5313 could be closed.
Best regards,
Ian