[Samba] Connecting Windows 11 Pro as domain member

[Rob Campbell]

Is there a Wiki on how to join my Windows 11 Pro to my Samba AD DC?  I'm
able to join other Linux computers but not my Windows.  My Windows is 22H2
but my Samba is 4.17.10.  I'm guessing it's something on the Windows side
because it doesn't even seem like it's getting to the Samba server at all.
I don't see any activity in any of the Samba logs or the system logs.

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On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 4:49 AM Rowland Penny via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Sep 2023 16:18:23 -0400
> Rob Campbell via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> > What am I missing if I don't join my Windows 11 to my Samba AD DC if
> > that is a thing?
>
> Anything and everything connected to being a domain member.
>
> >
> > Should I just create login scripts and map the resources or do I miss
> > out on something other than authentication?
>
> You are only going to get local authentication, even if you have a user
> called 'rob' on the non domain joined computer and a user called 'rob'
> in the domain, those users will be different users.
>
> >
> > If the accounts on the Windows 11 Pro computer are already using
> > Microsoft accounts, is there a way to map the MS account to the samba
> > account?
>
> You can do this on a Unix domain member by using the nss idmap backend ,
> but I am unaware of any way to do this on Windows.
>
> Basically, you are describing using your Win11 computer pretty much as
> a Samba standalone server and, sorry, I cannot recommend using one
> of those in a domain, it usually ends in tears.
>
> Rowland
>
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