[Samba] Samba and Active Directory

jzorzi at marketlinksolutions.com jzorzi at marketlinksolutions.com
Thu Aug 19 19:48:55 GMT 2004


I have setup my linux machine (Fedora Core2) to kinit to my windows 2003
server.
It has added itself to the active directory with no errors
I can use smbclient //server/c$ -k and view all the files on the server.
I installed and configured winbind.  I can do a wbinfo -u and wbinfo -g and
return the list of users and groups from the active directory.
I have done a getent passwd and getgroups and winbind has assigned the
active directory users and groups the proper unix uid's and gid's.
I can even assign ownership to files but I must use DOMAINPREFIX\\username
in order to do so. IS THIS THE CORRECT WAY TO DO THAT?

I can add the user to the smbpasswd file using "smbpasswd -a
DOMAINPREFIX\\username" and it gets added.
This tells me that unix knows the user exits.
Whether I add the username to the smbpasswd file or not I still cannot
access any of the samba shares.  It continuously prompts me for a username
and password when I access it from a windows machine.

I guessing that the password isn't getting pulled from the active directory
for the user accounts.  But I'm not sure.


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