[Samba] Suppressing DOMAIN on AD-DC Machine

[Rowland penny]

On 26/05/2020 18:32, Nick Piggott via samba wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here's my setup:
> * Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
> * Samba 4.7.6
> * Active Directory (provided by Samba)
> * Postfix 3.3.0
> * Mailutils 3.4
>
> On this machine, my AD usernames are showing in the format
> DOMAIN\username
>
> All the machines in the AD have a directive in their /etc/samba/smb.conf
> file
> winbind use default domain = yes
> however this doesn't work on this machine acting as the AD-DC, and looking
> through the mailing list, this is by design, and unlikely to change. (It
> does work on the workstations where users are just shown as their username).
>
> Having the format DOMAIN\username is making using Postfix / Mailutils very
> difficult. Originating emails ("From: DOMAIN\username at domain.com") are
> being rejected by mail relays, and case folding on Postfix means I end up
> with two mail files for each user in /var/mail (DOMAIN\username and
> domain\username).
>
> Is there any way to suppress the DOMAIN section of a username on the AD-DC
> machine? Or an alternative approach to fixing this issue. (I've looked at
> re-writing in Postfix, and it's ugly).

No, you cannot suppress the domain name, this is one of the reasons we 
do not recommend using the DC for anything other than authentication. 
Have you considered running postfix on a Unix domain member (where you 
can remove the domain name), this could be in a VM on the DC.

Rowland