[Samba] Joining Linux to Windows 2000 domain

Tim Barone timb1971 at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 30 15:31:09 GMT 2004 

Hamish,  Many thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I'm connected!!  It works!  If I need 
any additional advice I'll be in touch.  Thank you again!  Have a great 
weekend!

Tim


>From: Hamish <captainmish at gmx.net>
>To: Tim Barone <timb1971 at hotmail.com>, Samba List <samba at lists.samba.org>
>Subject: Re: [Samba] Joining Linux to Windows 2000 domain
>Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:16:17 +0100
>
>Hi Tim
>Have you edited your /etc/nsswitch.conf file? This needs to be edited if 
>you are running as a domain member server. Look in the documentation if you 
>have problems, but you should be able to edit this file fairly easily.
>Look for the lines that look like this:
>
>passwd: files (winbind)
>shadow: files
>group: files (winbind)
>
>they should be similar to that (the stuff in brackets is what you should 
>add (without the brackets).
>
>Restart winbind and smb and you should be good to go. (Make sure your 
>shares are writeable as well ie your [public] share: as root type `chmod 
>777 /export/public` - this gives the world read, write and execute on the 
>dir.
>
>PS. Try to respond via the samba list, this makes it possible for other 
>people to search (so if someone else has the same problem, they can just 
>search the list - "reply all" works!)
>
>
>Tim Barone wrote:
>
>>Hamish, I feel like I'm getting close!!!!! I worked on it for a while 
>>yesterday and when I tried to access the e2efileserver from windows 
>>explorer, I got a "Connect to e2efileserver" login window. After entering 
>>name and password, it just hung, nothing happended.
>>
>>I was reading some documentation on modifying PAM files to allow users to 
>>access the Linux box. Do you think this is needed in my case????
>>
>>Thanks again for your time and trying to help a beginning Linux user!!!
>>
>>Tim
>>
>>
>>
>>>From: Hamish <captainmish at gmx.net>
>>>To: Tim Barone <timb1971 at hotmail.com>, Samba List <samba at lists.samba.org>
>>>Subject: Re: [Samba] Joining Linux to Windows 2000 domain
>>>Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:12:43 +0100
>>>
>>>Hi Tim
>>>You might not see the e2efileserver there because you are not running 
>>>netbios - this is easy to check, just type `/etc/init.d/nmb start`. This 
>>>will start the netbios daemon and you should then be able to get to your 
>>>server from windows explorer by \\e2efileserver.
>>>You will also need to make sure all those services start when the server 
>>>reboots (hopefully not too often!), im not too sure how fedora gives a 
>>>gui to your services, but from a console this should work: `chkconfig 
>>>--level 35 smb on` repeat this for nmb and winbind (swap nmb etc for smb) 
>>>- this will make samba winbind and nmb start when the server switches to 
>>>runlevel 3 or 5 (by default you will be starting in runlevel 5).
>>>
>>>Since you will be running e2efileserver as a domain member, I think it 
>>>would be a good idea to also make sure it does not try to win browser 
>>>elections (i may be wrong, but i saw some strange things happening when 
>>>my server started trying) you can do this by adding: "local master = no" 
>>>and "preferred master = no" to your smb.conf
>>>
>>>Hopefully that should give you all you need to run ;)
>>>H
>>>
>>>Tim Barone wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hamish, thanks so much for getting back to me! I made sure to follow all 
>>>>of your suggestions. Also, I made a few changes to smb.conf and now 
>>>>wbinfo -u gives me a list of users and wbinfo -g gives me a list of 
>>>>groups. Making some progress!!!
>>>>
>>>>I made the following changes to smb.conf:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>security = ads
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>When I go to a Windows machine and view the entire network, I do not see 
>>>>an e2efileserver icon (e2efileserver is my Linux box). Any further ideas 
>>>>on what I can do????
>>>>
>>>>Tim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>From: Hamish <captainmish at gmx.net>
>>>>>To: Tim Barone <timb1971 at hotmail.com>
>>>>>CC: samba at lists.samba.org
>>>>>Subject: Re: [Samba] Joining Linux to Windows 2000 domain
>>>>>Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:42:18 +0100
>>>>>
>>>>>Make sure winbind is running (have you edited nsswitch.conf to include 
>>>>>winbind?) and that nscd is not running. You can stop nscd and restart 
>>>>>all the samba services with `/etc/init.d/nscd stop` then 
>>>>>`/etc/init.d/smb restart` `/etc/init.d/nmb restart` 
>>>>>`/etc/init.d/winbind restart`
>>>>>Hope this helps
>>>>>
>>>>>Tim Barone wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hello, I am new to Linux, Samba, and actually servers in general. I am 
>>>>>>attempting to set up a Linux file server and join it to a Windows 2000 
>>>>>>domain. All I want to be able to do is get files from the linux file 
>>>>>>server and put files on it. I do not want it to be the domain 
>>>>>>controller.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I join the domain using: net join -S 10.10.10.40 
>>>>>>-UAdministrator%password
>>>>>>
>>>>>>It tells me that I have joined the domain.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>wbinfo -t & wbinfo -p work fine!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Wbinfo -u gives me: Error looking up domain members
>>>>>>Wbinfo -g gives me: Error looking up domain groups
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Any ideas on what to do?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks a bunch!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Linux is Fedora Core 1
>>>>>>Samba is 3.0
>>>>>>
>>>>>>smb.conf file:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>[global]
>>>>>>workgroup = EIIECOMM
>>>>>>netbios name = e2efileserver1
>>>>>>realm = EIIECOMM.COM
>>>>>>idmap uid = 10000 - 15000
>>>>>>idmap gid = 10000 - 15000
>>>>>>winbind separator = +
>>>>>>winbind use default domain = Yes
>>>>>>use sendfile = Yes
>>>>>>server string= Samba Server
>>>>>>printcap anme = /etc/printer
>>>>>>load printers = yes
>>>>>>log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>>>>>>max log size = 50
>>>>>>security = domain
>>>>>>password server = *
>>>>>>socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>>>>>>local master = no
>>>>>>os level = 33
>>>>>>wins support = no
>>>>>>wins server = 10.10.10.40 (I'm not sure this is a wins server)
>>>>>>dns proxy = no
>>>>>>
>>>>>>[homes]
>>>>>>comment = Home Directories
>>>>>>valid users = %S
>>>>>>browseable = yes
>>>>>>writeable = yes
>>>>>>
>>>>>>[tmp]
>>>>>>comment = Temporary file space
>>>>>>path = /tmp
>>>>>>writeable = yes
>>>>>>guest ok = yes
>>>>>>
>>>>>>[public]
>>>>>>comment = Data
>>>>>>path = /export/public
>>>>>>public = yes
>>>>>>writeable = yes
>>>>>>
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