[Samba] steps to get automatic home folder created at user logon windows 10 with samba 4.9.5-Debian

[Rowland penny]

On 30/04/2020 22:29, Jelle de Jong via samba wrote:
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> On 2020-04-30 22:57, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
>> On 30/04/2020 20:57, Jelle de Jong via samba wrote:
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>>> I never was able to get the backend = ad working
>>>
>>> I only need my user to be able to login to Windows 10 systems from a 
>>> domain joined machine.
>>>
>>> This is how I add my users:
>>>
>>> samba-tool user create lgaga passwd --login-shell /bin/bash 
>>> --given-name "Lady Gaga" --home-drive=H 
>>> --home-directory="\\\SAMBA01\users\lgaga"
>>>
>>> Based on this wiki https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Idmap_config_ad 
>>> I tried the bellow configuration again but it did now work. getent 
>>> passwd user or id user does not do anything. I think I am missing 
>>> the prerequisites when using samba-tool to create the user as above?
>>
>> You are not adding the required RFC2307 attributes (uidNumber etc), 
>> these are not added automatically and without them, the 'ad' backend 
>> will not work.
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> Yes that is why I am using rid backend again. Is there a way to 
> automatic add uidNumber etc with the samba-tool when creating a user, 
> I do not want to manually have to track uids when adding users...
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jelle de Jong
>
It is fairly easy, you just need to add a couple of attributes to AD 
(the ones the Unix Attributes tabs in ADUC uses) and then write a script 
around 'samba-tool user add' to use them.

Rowland