[Samba] Regular users can't log in to Samba AD DC from Windows

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Mon Feb 6 16:07:33 UTC 2017


On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 17:09:27 +0200
Alnis Morics via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> 
> On 02/06/2017 16:36, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 16:16:28 +0200
> > Alnis Morics via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 02/06/2017 15:43, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 14:47:21 +0200
> >>> Alnis Morics via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I see. But I don't necessarily need homedirs and hence PAM
> >>>> configured just to log in from Windows and access a file share
> >>>> from there, do I? Or even just to log in on Windows to the
> >>>> domain.
> >>>>
> >>>> Alnis
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> If you only have windows users and they will never actually log
> >>> into the Samba AD DC, then you don't need user homedirs on the DC.
> >>>
> >>> Rowland
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> That's my main problem for now: single sign-on doesn't work. The
> >> Windows machine is joined the domain. Domain Administrator can log
> >> in with this Windows machine, and other users that I created with
> >> samba-tool, can not. Can you suggest a way of how to trace what's
> >> going on?
> >>
> >> Alnis
> >>
> >
> > Not sure I understand what you are saying, do you want your users to
> > connect to shares on the DC, or are you saying that your users
> > cannot log into a windows PC joined to the domain ?
> >
> > Rowland
> >
> My (domain) users cannot log into a Windows PC joined to the domain.
> 
> I created those users with samba-tool. Only the domain Administrator
> can log into this Windows PC.
> 
> Alnis
> 

I seem to remember something about freebsd, what filesystem are you
using and what were your ./config optiond when you built Samba ?

Rowland



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