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00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\LanmanWorkstation\Paramete rs] ; Enable NT-Domain compatibility mode ; Default: ; [value not present] ; "DomainCompatibilityMode"="DomainCompatibilityMode"=dword:00000001 ; Disable required DNS name resolution ; Default: ; [value not present] ; "DNSNameResolutionRequired"="DNSNameResolutionRequired"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Netlogon\Parameters] ; Disable requirement of signed communication ; My Samba (3.0.33) works with signed communication enabled, so no need to disab le it. ; Default: ; "RequireSignOrSeal"=dword:00000001 ; Disable the usage of strong keys ; Default: ; "RequireStrongKey"=dword:00000001 "RequireStrongKey"=dword:00000000 I found more details about this on the following discussion, which was also very helpful: http://www.nabble.com/Windows-7-RC-td23405949.html

2) I actually needed to update to the newer Samba version (3.3.4) to resolve the issue, where Windows cannot establish a trust relationship with the domain cont roller. 3) This only other issue I had after updating was that Samba tried to establish a TLS connection to the LDAP Server (which in my case is running on the same mac hine). Since I do not use TLS, this failed of course. Issue was resolved by addi ng "ldap ssl = No" to the smb.conf file on the samba server.