[Samba] mount share using kerberos ticket fails

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Mar 10 09:37:10 UTC 2020


On 10/03/2020 09:18, Yvan Masson via samba wrote:
> If think I did not properly explain my setup, sorry for that: Samba 
> here is not sharing anything. It is just used for joining a Windows 
> domain, so that users can sit on a chair in front of this Debian 
> computer, use their domain credentials in LightDM, and then access 
> theirs personal and shared data (that are shared by the Windows DC, 
> mounted locally by pam_mount).
Yes, telling us that would have helped.
>
> So, my understanding is that my setup does not require creating an UPN 
> and a corresponding keytab to put on this Linux client. I am probably 
> not completely wrong as mounting a Windows share on the Debian 
> computer using Kerberos now works :-).
No, it should work without manually creating any UPN's, SPN's or keytabs
>
> I permit myself this question again: in this setup, is it useful to 
> have /etc/krb5.keytab or not?

No, you do not need the keytab, you just need the correct setup that 
uses the users kerberos ticket via PAM at login.

Rowland





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