[Samba] How do I join an Centos8 workstation to an NT4 domain?

[Rowland penny]

On 24/02/2021 10:25, Nick Howitt via samba wrote:
>
> Is there a way to leave a domain with "net ..." so I can test a 
> rejoin? I added the 'wins server' line to smb.conf and the join went 
> OK without specifying the -S, but it was already joined at that point.


Yes, just replace 'join' with 'leave'

>
> I've made the nsswitch.conf changes but still cannot log in as domain 
> user as password validation fails:
>
> Feb 24 10:10:48 proxmox106 gdm-password][3498]: 
> pam_unix(gdm-password:auth): check pass; user unknown
> Feb 24 10:10:48 proxmox106 gdm-password][3498]: 
> pam_unix(gdm-password:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 
> euid=0 tty=/dev/tty1 ruser= rhost=
> Feb 24 10:10:48 proxmox106 gdm-password][3498]: gkr-pam: error looking 
> up user information
> Feb 24 10:10:59 proxmox106 gdm-password][3503]: 
> pam_unix(gdm-password:auth): check pass; user unknown
> Feb 24 10:10:59 proxmox106 gdm-password][3503]: 
> pam_unix(gdm-password:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 
> euid=0 tty=/dev/tty1 ruser= rhost=
> Feb 24 10:10:59 proxmox106 gdm-password][3503]: gkr-pam: error looking 
> up user information


Do you have samba-winbind-clients installed ?

>
> Do I now need to adjust the pam configuration. Again the notes I have 
> suggest so but the files mentioned don't exist in Centos 8.


Not really a Centos user, but I think you need to run 'authselect select 
winbind with-mkhomedir'

Rowland