[Samba] authenticate to samba using email address

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 12:13 +0000, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> On 29/10/2020 12:05, mj via samba wrote:
> > dns in the above sample meaning the samba AD dns name, i guess..?
> > 
> > In that case, that basically means username at samba.domain.com, or 
> > username at realm, which also equals the above)
> > 
> > That is still something for our end users to remember specifically 
> > (and use only) when accessing the domain member fileservers.
> > 
> > I was actually hoping someone knew a clever way to make 
> > username at domain.com work for samba access.
> 
> You are authenticating to AD, so you need to use information that AD 
> understands, its dns domain (not an email domain) and the users name,
> or 
> the Netbios domain\username.

The UPN can be in a different domain.  For full trust routing in
complex forests you need to fill in a table somewhere, but Samba
doesn't really care, it just searches for it as a string.

Andrew Bartlett

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