Hi Ralph,
The quote from the how-to is my personal note regarding the information that i suggested to be presented there.
I've put this at the beginning of the How-To:
Below I'll describe the setup steps and also the personal notes of what I think it should be added as options/features.
I know it is not optimal and that How-to needs to be re-worked. but i did not have yet the time 
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But you are sustaining a point that I was making 
PS. Maybe it will be of help to you to try and use other registry settings for your win clients.
See here: http://community.nethserver.org/t/unable-to-join-windows-7-client-to-nethserver-domain/1122/32
And here: http://community.nethserver.org/t/windows-10-join-nethserver/1999/21
Also try what Stefano suggested. Add a new fresh client to that domain and see the results.
BR
Bogdan
