I setup a new computer for a client, and Windows 7 would not map the drives in the logon script for the domain account.

Ran into this issue, again. Our domain uses a VBScript as our login script, and it appears to run. It runs correctly if started manually, just not at user login. It fails to reconnect the mapped network drives and they are not showing up in Windows Explorer. So, here’s a quick tip.

Add this to your registry:

Under this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Add this DWORD value:
EnableLinkedConnections = 1

Then reboot.  After I added this to Windows 7 Pro registry as the administrator, of course, and then login as my standard user account, all my mapped drives were there and available.

I didn’t bother looking into how or why that works, so I can’t give any background info.  I just needed it to work.

Good luck, hope that helps others!

Somehow my wife got MyWebSearch loaded on my Windows 7 computer, which cleaned off fine, except for Firefox web searching! Every time I used the Awesome Bar to search, MyWebSearch showed the results.

Easy fix…  go to “about:config” in Firefox by typing it in the URL bar.  In the Filter box, type “myweb”.  In my system, it showed 4 items with “mywebsearch” in the name.  All I did was right-click each one and select “Reset” to clear them.  Restart Firefox and BAM!  Solved!  No more MyWebSearch and now I get the normal Google results!

I was asked about the resources used on the Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 using either Windows 7, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, or JoliCloud operating systems.  So… here’s what I found…

I didn’t do anything fancy, just boot each up and look at their system/task managers.  The Linux systems have Chromium/Google Chrome running, and Jolicloud has Apache and Mysql services running, but they both ran at about 200Mb – 250Mb and minimal CPU usage.  On the Linux systems, I immediately launched the system monitors upon boot and took a screenshot. On Windows, however, I didn’t even have a screenshot app, so I had to find one first.  This brought the usage down a little, down to around 650Mb (it boots with about 750Mb), but CPU was still up there and bouncing around a lot, just lower than during bootup.  Keep in mind also, on Windows, the Dell came with McAfee antivirus, which is running and using resources.  But NO WEB BROWSER is running on Windows in the screen shot.

What I found really annoying, was that once Internet Explorer was launched, so I could upload a screenshot, the memory went up and over 800Mb!  I only have 1Gb in this thing, so there’s really no room for apps to run.  I am sure an extra 1Gb of memory would help, but it wouldn’t make it any faster. The thing just runs slow regardless under Windows.  On the Linux side, they run slow too, just *not as slow* feeling as Windows does.  At least there’s room in 1Gb to run some apps.

It was odd though, because Windows sitting idle would run a low cpu percentage, like under 10%, and commonly with 2-5%.  Once you do anything, the cpu spikes up, and with IE running, it runs 100% for a while.  On Ubuntu, you can see it running consistently around 25%, which spikes just like Windows, only not 100%.  Jolicloud runs a little better, with about 10 – 15% resources at idle, with the occasional spikes too.  They all spike up when you do anything, but Windows spikes way up, and a lot of the time its at 100%.  Could be, that’s why it seems slower, and that may be caused by extra swapping to disk because Windows requires much more memory.  (I don’t really know, just a theory)  Just my opinion, concerning the general operational responsiveness, Ubuntu 10.04 seems to run a little better than either, but Jolicloud is very close and not really noticeable. I think its just the UI they’ve got that’s just a tiny bit slower than the Ubuntu GUI.  But its not a big deal.

Anyway, here’s the screenshot of Windows after about 5 minutes from boot.

Larger image here: http://www.1stbyte.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screenshot-windows7resources-1.jpg

And below is the Jolicloud screenshot.

Larger Image here: http://www.1stbyte.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screenshot-jolicloudresources.jpg

And last, below is Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Netbook Remix version.

Larger image of Ubuntu here: http://www.1stbyte.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screenshot-Ubunturesources.jpg

Quick note about using chntpw command to reset Windows passwords. Mostly, I just couldn’t remember what the command line program was or the switches.

Boot to System Rescue CD.
mount the Windows drive RW (mine was RO)
cd to the config dir: cd /mnt/sda1/Windows/System32/config
Backup your sam,security,system,software (just copy them to another directory)

Now run this to list user while in the config directory:
chntpw -l ./sam

And this will run in interactive mode and ask you which user to edit the password.
chntpw -i ./sam

Chntpw can also edit your registry. One time it really saved the day when I was locked out of a computer and something was causing boot to fail. This made it pretty quick to edit the registry in a way that allowed me access to the system again. (then we proceeded to run a bunch of antivirus checks)  By the way, this worked for me on Windows XP and Windows 7.

Great tool!

We have Exchange accounts in Outlook 2010 and the Global Address List would not update. One reason was due to an error on our server (address in another post), but then the default times to update are 24 ours, and that’s too long. On our internal systems, we want Cached Mode exchange accounts, but direct/real-time addess to the Global Address List in Active Directory.

1.

Add this to a new registry file and/or add to your user’s registry (not system, each user on workstation). Create a text file on your desktop, copy/paste the text below, save, then double click to add to your registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Cached Mode]
"DownloadOAB"=dword:00000000

The above is for Outlook 2010, but for 2007 and 2003, replace the 14.0 with 12.0 and 11.0 respectively.

2.

If you have and OAB files, you need to remove them. In this folder:
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook
If you see “Offline Address Books”, rename that folder. Close Outlook and reopen.

You should now have direct GAL access and updates are immediate.

Reference more detail here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841273

I tested Windows 7, Jolicloud, Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick, and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid on my new Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (1012) Netbook.  First let me say, Window 7 on this netbook is barely usable. If you wait for the OS to finish booting, which takes at least 5 minutes before all the background processes finish loading, then it operates *Ok*.  But to be honest, I didn’t want to run this thing with Windows from the start.  Biggest reason…  from initial power on, it takes 3 minutes and 13 seconds to boot, connect to Wifi, and have your home page open.  WHAT!  Are you kidding me?  That’s just way too long for something that you want for some periodic web use.  And remember, that’s Windows 7 without any Antivirus software loaded up (at least any that I saw from a fresh Dell install from factory).  Once you load up some basic programs, Antivirus, Dropbox, backup software (I prefer Crashplan, but you could consider Dropbox just for essentials.), Office, just basic stuff for any Windows system, it’s going to slow down even further.   I don’t expect much from this little, underpowered Atom-based, mini laptop, but it should be something reasonable to use.  I think another post is coming for “My advice on buying a Netbook, for non-Geeks.”

So… I didn’t like the idea of Windows on my netbook. I am a Linux/Unix guy anyway, and I know there’s been some big improvements in the Linux Desktop area.  I use Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid as my primary desktop and laptop OS anyway, and I love it.  ( I still have a secondary Windows 7 system though.)  I wanted to give Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.10 Maverick a try. I installed it, and immediately noticed something, I had no wireless.  Man, still!  For the last 1 to 2 years I’ve tried netbooks with Linux based OS’s and they always have issues with the wirless!  And to make it worse, getting the wireless to work looked easy, but it didn’t work. The “restricted drivers” in Ubuntu didn’t want to load. I did get everything working, but Maverick has some major issues that drove me nuts.

Maverick netbook version uses that nice looking, and clever user interface called Unity.  But I had a very hard time with it.  For one, I couldn’t add my own launchers.  Right click menu’s didn’t work, and it customizing it, if you even can, was very difficult.  For two, it crashed constantly!  For three, once I added the current Apt updates, the whole thing slowed so much I could barely operate it!  Maverick was such a pain to use, I just formatted and loaded Lucid after wasting over a day of tweaks and adjustments.

I will say this, Ubuntu Maverick did boot quickly. Times below are from initial power button, which includes BIOS POST.
- In about 50 seconds I had a desktop.
- 1:13 I saw the Wifi connection established
- 1:27 the web was launched and home page loaded.
Not too bad, in my opinion.

However, continuing with Maverick was a NO-GO.  Next, I installed Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid. Install was easy, just like Maverick, but I didn’t see the crashing, it got all the updates and didn’t slow to a crawl, and most importantly, the Restricted Drivers for the Broadcom Wireless adapter loaded without an issue and connected right away.  NICE! Even better, the boot times were almost identical to Maverick! Including waiting 20 seconds for the Dell to POST, it was about a minute and a half and I was online surfing.

Of course, I’ve also heard recently that there’s this OS called Jolicloud.  So I had to test that out too.  I guess its Ubuntu 10.04 based, so should be easy and familiar for me.  And it was! Install didn’t work using their USB creator. I had to get a separate tool and do a manual USB disk creation of their ISO, but I am not complaining about that because you have to deal with this for all the Linux-USB-netbook installations.  It just didn’t use their own USB creator as described on their website and required more steps, but still easy.

Jolicloud installed effortlessly on the netbook! I had pre-allocated about 30G of free space on the hard drive just for this. When install ran, it asked if it could install into the free space, I said Yes, and it was easy from there.  You do have the option to resize and change the partitions if you want, I had done this previously with Ubuntu in my case.  Install took same amount of time as Ubuntu,and I think was about 20-30 minutes.

Initial boot asked for user credentials and to create an account with Jolicloud.  You can even use Facebook login with it, but the base Linux still requires a user account.  I think the developers don’t really intent it to be used by more than one person, just for ease of use.  But I wanted my family accounts on there, so I created one for each, which is a little odd and buggy process. (it didn’t work right away, gave me an error, looked like it was crashing, but then did actually work with a disabled account.)

Best thing about Jolicloud was, THE WIRELESS JUST WORKED!  I love it!  Install was easy, system booted, and I clicked the icon to use my Wifi connection.  Nice!  Even better, I was online and adding their apps easily and everything just worked in that area.  For most people, this is all you need.  It installed and things get you online and functional with ease.  Next best thing… it boots with the same times as Ubuntu!  In about 1 minute 30 seconds, I am online and browsing, from the moment I pushed power.

Two things I don’t like about Jolicloud.  1. Suspend doesn’t seem to work, but that may not be the fault of Jolicloud, and rather a driver issue or Dell issue.  Hibernate works great, so I setup the system to use that on lid close. (which takes about 17 seconds to power down).  2. They seem to want you to use their apps.  I can understand that, but this is Linux,and I like to geek-out!  I couldn’t find a way to make a launcher, anywhere, for specialized apps.  In my particular case, I was using Netbeans, which installed fine, but there was no way to launch it, except to A) use command line, or B) browse to the folder and double-click the launch script.  I have other apps that may be an issue with this. I don’t like it,and I don’t like being confined to their launcher interface. Although, their user interface is very nice and for most all other operations it works very well and I like it!

Also, I don’t think they recommend it, but I used “apt-get” easily with no configuration. Everything I wanted to load with apt, worked without issue, so far.  I installed Mercurial, Apache2 and PHP5 to run a testing web server. Yes, I know, why would you do that on a Netbook?  Well, because, my son and I are playing with Javascript and PHP, and the netbook is really handy for him to play with while I use my laptop next to him.  Its fun!  Plus, with Jolicloud, using their built-in app install UI, they have about a Gazillion games and there’s lots to do on there for a kid.

So far, for me anyway, I am really liking Jolicloud. For most people, they’ll like it too, and its faster than Windows and you don’t need to deal with AV software. Not that you can’t get spyware or viruses, just that its not Windows, where you WILL get one without AV.

As for the Dell Mini 1012 netbook, I like it!  It’s got a nice, high-res display at 1366×768, unlike most netbooks that have only 1024×600. It’s battery is great too, and so far is lasting close to 5 hours. (probably average about 4 hours)  And with hibernation and only periodic use, it goes a couple days till I need to charge. Charging is slow though!  The keyboard is a little small for me, but usable.

This is not a post about comparison with an iPad, but I just have to say, even though I like this netbook and Jolicloud, it will only have limited use.  Now that my family has had an iPad for about 9 months or so, they don’t really want to use the netbook.  Main reason being… even with fairly quick boot time and ease of use, the iPad is WAY FASTER and easier to get online!  There’s also a “cool” factor, but even my anti-technology wife, she insists on using the iPad.  They all like it for that reason more than anything, that it powers on and you are online in literally a few seconds.  Also, the batter needs charging about once a week for us on the iPad.  I should also say, there’s no logins, weird moments where you need to “wait for that thing to show you are online”, or confusion about what to click and where to go. For the non-tech people, the iPad is hands down the best casual web device.  My kids use it for super quick Facebook checks and updates, my wife handles her recipes and does quick web lookups, and all if it without any of my help, and all of it very fast and easy.  A netbook, even with Windows, just doesn’t even compare.

If any of you readers have further questions regarding Jolicloud or Ubuntu Lucid or the Dell Mini, just comment and ask. I have the 250G drive loaded with all 3 in a triple boot setup, so I can probably check for specific issues if you like.

UPDATE 3/14/11 :

I added a new post on resource usage of each OS, if you are interested, with Screen shots.

Go here to check it out: http://www.1stbyte.com/2011/03/14/resource-usage-on-dell-inspiron-mini-1012-with-window-7-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-and-jolicloud/

MsMpEng.exe – Antimalware service executable

I generally do not have any issues with Microsoft Security Essentials. It just works, and does its job quite well.  From time to time I notice some weird issues on my client computers, where MsMpEng.exe (Antimalware service executable) is using way too many and high resources and cpu time. (extra large amounts of memory and cpu time may even be 100%)

I had an original post here which may solve your issue as well:
http://www.1stbyte.com/2010/02/01/microsoft-security-essentials-msmpeng-exe-using-high-cpu-time/

That post says to exclude some directories from your scanning.  I have since found that, in the newer version of Microsoft Security Essentials, there are some options that have also helped.  We mainly want to tell MSSE that we only want to scan if the computer is not in use.  I also set to Limut CPU usage.

Check this option in the MSSE Settings tab, under Scheduled Scan:

“Start the scheduled scan only when my computer is on but not in use”

Open Microsoft Security Essentials and go to the Settings tab (shown below):

Next, in the Scheduled Scan settings on the left menu, look at the right side options and check the option box to only scan when my computer is not in use:

Security Essentials Settings - Make sure to Check this box

And last, save your changes:

Save your changes in Security Essentials

I have tried this setting, and it does help.  But read my other post too, if this doesn’t help, maybe give that other option a shot.  Good luck!

MsMpEng.exe – Antimalware service executable

I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64, but I think this might be problem in any version. I keep having issues with MsMpEng.exe hogging the cpu.  Basically, using a large amount of resources, like 100%!  It’s eating the CPU time and a lot of memory.  The system will work just fine, even after running for hours, when suddenly the system slows to a crawl, almost to the point I have to reset the system.  I finally narrowed the culprit to MsMpEng.exe, the scanner for MSSE (Microsoft Security Essentials).

Good news is, I think the cpu hog problem is solved! I found a link on a Google search about adding exclusions, which I suspected would be a problem for things like my backup programs.  I added Crashplan and Syncback programs already, but what I found in that Google search was that you need to add the MSSE directories in C:\ProgramData to the exclusion list.  WHAT!!???  Are you kidding me?  MSSE doesn’t already exclude itself?  Come on MS!!  I really like MSSE,  but that’s pretty stupid.

I went ahead and added the directories below to MSSE exclusions:
(Be sure you set your system to Show Hidden Files in Windows Explorer, because C:\ProgramData is hidden in Windows 7, and so is the “All Users” profile folder in XP.)

- – For Windows 7 – -

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Microsoft Antimalware
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Microsoft Security Essentials
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials

- – For Windows XP – -

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Microsoft Antimalware
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Microsoft Security Essentials
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials

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Note:
1. As stated above, make sure you have enabled/showed hidden files.
2. You may need to search your system for “Mirosoft Antimalware” or “Security Essentials” if you do not see the folders listed above.
3. I have not tested this in XP and don’t know the exact locations, so if you don’t see, do a search on your computer.
4. Thank you to several commenters for the extra information regarding XP and other possible locations!

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Now, for a couple days, I have had no more issues!!!  We’ll see in a week if it really fixes it.  That’s an easy fix, but completely annoying!  I still like MSSE regardless.  It’s not perfect, but I’d rather have it than anything else.

I am curious to know if anyone else found this fix to work?

Note:  I do recommend people run a manual scan with MalwareBytes and SuperAntispyware once in a while, along with the real time scanner in MSSE.  MSSE didn’t catch a recent trojan at one of my clients, same one was blocking MalwareBytes too.  Only SuperAntispyware cleaned the system properly.

EDIT 02/10/2010:

It’s been about a week and a half, still working fine! It appears that this fixed the problem!

EDIT 02/23/2011:

I have also seen a new setting to scan only when the computer is not in use, which has also helped in some cases. Check out my newer post:

http://www.1stbyte.com/2011/02/23/revisiting-msmpeng-exe-antimalware-service-executable-high-resource-usage/

So I never took the time to look these up, but I just heard about them recently.  I always wanted to know how to create a new folder in Windows Explorer without having to use menu’s, by just using a keyboard shortcut.

In the right side of the Explorer window, where you want the new folder, press your “CTL+SHIFT+N” keys.  You’ll get a new folder ready to type in a new name.

Also, you can hit “CTL+N” to get a new window in the same location.

I was not able to access a newly joined Windows 7 computer on our domain from our Windows 2000 Server.  I just received that error.  “Cannot perform the requested operation”  Sharing was setup ok, permissions and security set ok, firewall was turned off.  I saw an Event ID 2017 on the Windows 7 system, too. Something about “unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool”.

I found this online. Add the MaxNonpagedMemoryUsage value below in the client’s registry. (Windows 7 system)  Make a restore point first so you can undo if any problems arise.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\MaxNonpagedMemoryUsage

DWORD VALUE: 0xFFFFFFFF

Next, restart the “Server” service on the Windows 7 machine.  Then go back to Windows 2000 Server and try to connect to \\window7machine and see if it can access it now.

This worked great for me, hopefully it works for you too.  However, it may be wise to increase that value in small increments from the default, which I THINK is 0×100000.   I just maxed it out and on my client system to test, and it’s working fine.  Just thought I’d make note of it.  If you have further problems, or this doesn’t fix the issue, remove the value and reboot.  This should return it back to the default.

I am testing Windows 7 Pro on my laptop and wanted to decide if I can get by with that instead of Ultimate.  Well, my time is running out and I need a couple day to backup everything before I change it.  So…  I need to “rearm” the activation system.

Go to the start menu, and in search box type “cmd” and hit CTL-SHIFT-ENTER to open the command prompt with elevated rights.  Type this:

   1: slmgr -rearm

You’ll get a popup telling you it was successful and you need to restart a few seconds later.

This is a pain. For some reason, unkown even to Microsoft aparently, I reboot my system only to login to a temporary profile in Windows Vista or Windows 7.   As of this writing, I am using the release candidate of Windows 7, but since I’ve seen this on Vista and even on Windows XP, I kind of suspect this has nothing to do with this being a beta product.  XP doesn’t give the same error.  I can’t remember what it says, but it basicaly does the same thing, it logs you in under the “Default” profile in windows, which is temporary and you lose everything once you logout.

You might see this error:

Your user profile was not loaded correctly! You have been logged on with a temporary profile.
Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off. Please see the event log for details or contact your administrator.

Why this happens is a mystery.  I found one article on the MS knowledge base about your account that is a member of Guests or Domain Guests, but that’s not the case for my issue.  I found this article, which led me to a quick fix.  (I doubt a fix permanently though)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947242

The solution in that article did not fix it for me.  Also, I’ve heard you can simply logout and back on, but that doesn’t fix it for me either.  What I did was delete the subkey in the ProfileList registy key mentioned in the article above.  If you go in there, you’ll see two keys with the same SID.  One will end in “.bak”, which should be your correct key.  Look within that key for the value of ProfileImagePath.  It should show the path to your windows profile.  Mine, for example, is : “C:\Users\greg”. Now look into the newly created profile key (SID without the “.bak”), this should show ImageProfilePath of “C:\Users\Temp”.   Obviously wrong.

The fix in the article tells you to delete the key with the “SID.bak”, but that just left in the temp profile and didn’t work for me.  I went back in to the registry, deleted the one with the C:\Users\Temp in the path, and then renamed my original one (Which I had exported! Named with the “.bak” and has your correct profile path.) by simply removing the “.bak” at the end.  Log off and back on, problem solved.

I hope this helps!  Backup your registry first!!

I love my new Env Touch, since I can’t get an iPhone it’s just awesome, but there’s a couple little things I don’t like. Like the fact that the dial pad goes blank when entering my PIN in voice mail. I have the screen set to 30 seconds timeout, but it still instantly goes blank. Well, guess what I discovered? If you just hold the phone flat, the screen lights up again! LOL! That’s the trick, just hold it flat, and you can see the numbers to enter!

Also, it drove me nuts that I couldn’t get all my contacts imported somehow.  I finally took some time to do a little searching and found this awesome post:

http://www.verizon-phones.org/verizon-lg-env3-and-env-touch-outlook-sync-software-update-download.html

I have all my contacts in Google Apps, but that was just a simple export to CSV, which I took and imported into Outlook 2007 easy enough.  I am using Windows 7 RC – 64bit.  I took the modem driver and the Outlook sync tool and set them both with Windows XP sp2 compatibility, then I ran them “As Administrator” as well.  The modem driver installed, can’t remember if it said success or not though.  Then the sync tool, that installed just fine.

I took my phone and set the USB to Modem mode, then plugged it in.  Windows 7 saw it, but the LG software to run updates didn’t see it.  I don’t care, because I just want my contacts.  So I opened Outlook, at the top toolbar was a new LG button.  Open that and do your sync.  I only ran the Contacts, so I don’t know if the Calendar will work yet, but all my contacts are now in my phone.  Now, I just need to setup a sync to Google Apps, and then a sync using this tool, and I’ll be dual syncing!

Download the Outlook sync tool here:

http://www.lgmobilephones.com/images/support/resources/LG_Outlook_Sync.msi

And the modem driver (URL is shortened):

http://www.lgmobilephones.com/…LGUSBModemDriver_Eng_WHQL_Ver_4.9.4_All.exe

I found some info on Google searches to get Windows 7 to join a Samba domain controller.  I have Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty which runs Samba 3.3.2, which I guess does not work.  You need 3.3.4.   Windows 7 needs a registry change:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters]
“DomainCompatibilityMode”=dword:00000001
“DNSNameResolutionRequired”=dword:00000000

The above need to be added to allow the join to work.  Then find the key below and set those values to 0.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Netlogon\Parameters]
“RequireSignOnSeal”=dword:00000000
“RequireStrongKey”=dword:00000000

The Netlogon values need to be updated, or Windows 7 will not allow domain logons.  You’ll get an error about credentials and no domain controller, or something like it.  Adding the second two will allow the logon.

Adding the registry keys above, plus upgrading Samba, did the trick.  I was able to join Windows 7 to Samba 3.3.4, but I did get a weird error about the DNS suffix being wrong.  I just said OK and left it.  I tried to change it several times after, too, but always get the same error.  System working fine so far though!

As for upgrading Samba, you’ll have to Google that one.  But here’s what I did, in a nutshell. (This is NOT a HOWTO, just a record of my experience, so if you follow this, it might break your system. Just be warned.  A Samba Server book might be nice for more information.)  I had a working domain controller, so I had a SAM database already with SID’s and passwords.  I didn’t want to lose those.  After backing up my server and Samba configs (including all the tdb files) I removed Samba 3.3.2 package from Ubuntu.  Then I downloaded the Samba source tar.gz for version 3.3.4, unpacked and “./configure” and then compiled. (make && make install)

At this point I found all my tdb files and copied them into the default Samba installation, which was different than the Ubuntu package.  I think the original tdb files from Ubuntu are in /var/lib/samba.  I copied all that to /usr/local/samba/var/lock. (the default when compiling from source)  I also setup a link from the original smb.conf in /etc/samba to /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf.

Now I’ve got my Windows 7 system logged in and joined to my Samba domain!