open a terminal on your hda, or, if you use putty, open a connection to your hda.

First, backup your smb.conf file, in case you run into problems you can easily revert back.

next we need to modify the smb file, i use nano for this, you may use any editor you feel confortable with

change the apropriate parts in the smb.conf

for convienence i'll post my complete smb.conf as a sample for you.

[global]

workgroup = {YOUR_DOMAIN}

socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

os level = 65

preferred master = yes

logon drive = q:

logon home = \\hda\%u

time server = yes

printer admin = root, @ntadmin, administrator

[homes]

read only = no

browseable = no

[netlogon]

comment = Network Logon Service

writable = no

share modes = no

[Profiles]

comment = Roaming Profile Share

read only = No

profile acls = Yes

[print$]

printable = yes

public = yes

Save your smb.conf

- mkdir /var/hda/domain-settings

- mkdir /var/hda/domain-settings/netlogon

Each time you want a user to join the domain, a user needs to be added, this can be done through the users tab on the amahi dashboard.

aditionally, a profile directory needs to be created.

nol is the user i created through the users tab of the amahi dashboard.

Since we are logging in as root, we need to change the ownership of the previously created directory to the corresponding owner:

Now, this still doesnt allow us to login, because in samba, machines need to be added too!

this can be done automaticly, but for the time beeing we do it manually, amahi may facilitate this for you in the future.

Now as you can see there are some differences, when we added the Windows pc to Linux, we added the name computername$,

this tells Linux that it is a machine, not a name. Next when we added the Samba password, we invoked the -m,

now its time to restart samba.

Now you need to setup your Windows pc for domain logins.

***Note the first time that you join a Samba domain from Windows, you will need to join the domain by using root as the name, and your root password for the password.

After rebooting, any valid user will be able to access the domain.