[Samba] nfs4 mounted homedir and kerberos tickets

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 14:54:32 UTC 2015


On 08/09/15 15:33, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
> Hai,
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> I have strange problem, i think its a simple thing, but im missing some kerberos knowledge here..
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> Situation.
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> I login with my pc on the AD domain, (works fine).
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> Now i login on my member server with ssh (putty), using the ssh single sign-on on my server where my
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> homedirs is  ( /home/users/username)  , this works fine.
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> When i do the same to my print server, where the homedir is mounted with nfsv4  kerberos base.
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> I get an error that im unable to access my home dir.
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> ( see also the samba list subject : Re: [Samba] nfs based shared home dir question )
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> When i do the following.
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> I login to the member server, as described above, and then login to the printserver from the member server,
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> I need to type my password and i DO have access to my home dir.
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> Now i logout of both servers, test again from my pc with putty to my print server without type-ing passwords
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> and … now it works as is should.
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> What is missing here ?? must be something simple, but this i cant find it.
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> And Rowland, … now i know what you did mean about systemd… still lots of bugs,
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> found serveral bugs, combined with nfs, due to above problems, and not auto mounting my nfs based homedir etc.
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> but got that all fixed.
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> /offtopic.
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> On debian Jessie with nfs4 kerberos setup.
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> On the server nfs server in fstab,
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> Add the following after the bind option:
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> bind,x-systemd.automount
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> Client : with nfs4 kerberos when using fstab.
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> Create the folder : /etc/systemd/system/nfs-common.service.d/
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> And add this file with content : remote-fs-pre.conf
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> Before=remote-fs-pre.target
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> Wants=remote-fs-pre.target
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> This makes sure your mount really mounts at the end of starting up
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> Greetz,
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> Louis
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Hi Louis, I don't use NFS myself, but I think your problem is that you 
are using nfs4, try using nfs3 instead

Steve, who used to post on here, wrote a blog on it, start reading here: 
http://linuxcostablanca.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/samba4-shares.html

I think he moved onto using nfs4, but not sure, just browse his blog

Rowland



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