[Samba] Login from any workstation

[Zombie Ryushu]

On 11/14/22 15:43, Rob Campbell via samba wrote:
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> In all things, Be Intentional.
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> On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 3:40 AM Stefan Kania via samba <
> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
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>> Authentication is no problem, just join the PC to the domain and
>> configure the login for your distribution, depending on your
>> windowmanager.For the home-dir you can use pam_mount. All settings for a
>> user is located in $HOME so if you mount $HOME from a Server the user
>> always has his own $HOME on any PC.
>>
>> That's what I was thinking would happen.  But when you log into a new
> computer, the $HOME is created and default configurations are added.
>
>   la /home/robcampbell/
> total 72K
> drwxr-xr-x 15 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:33 .
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root             root              4.0K Nov 14 15:27 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users  220 Nov 14 15:27
> .bash_logout
> -rw-r--r--  1 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 3.5K Nov 14 15:27 .bashrc
> drwx------ 11 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:33 .cache
> drwx------ 12 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:33 .config
> drwxr-xr-x  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 Desktop
> drwxr-xr-x  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 Documents
> drwxr-xr-x  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 Downloads
> drwx------  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:36 .gnupg
> drwx------  4 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 .local
> drwxr-xr-x  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 Music
> drwxr-xr-x  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 Pictures
> -rw-r--r--  1 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users  807 Nov 14 15:27 .profile
> drwxr-xr-x  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 Public
> drwx------  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:33 .ssh
> drwxr-xr-x  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 Templates
> drwxr-xr-x  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 Videos
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> Am 13.11.22 um 04:51 schrieb Rob Campbell via samba:
>>> I'd like to have all users be able to log into any laptop in the house.
>>> They all have Debian 11 on them and I have joined them all to the domain.
>>> Now I want all users to authenticate through the dc so I can easily
>> manage
>>> lockouts.  I also want roaming profiles so when they log on, every laptop
>>> looks the same.  Is this possible with a samba configuration?
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You have a fundamental misunderstanding about how Roaming Profiles in 
Windows works.

Roaming Profiles are a feature of Windows clients, not Windows Servers. 
Servers accommodate them, but Samba just tells the Windows Client where 
it wants to put the Windows Profile.

Linux Clients have no such facility for replicating a user's Home Folder 
to a Samba Server like Windows Clients do it. (Sorta.)

There are a few work-around solutions.

You can use pam_mount to mount the remote filesystem, on the local 
workstation. If you lose access to your server, that's bad. It's also 
bad for backing things up, and not what Windows does.

The other way you can do this, is using NextCloud, and just telling the 
NextCloud Client to use Samba Authentication, and replicate everything.