[Samba] EXT :Re: smb won't allow users from other ou share access

[Fuhriman, Nathanael [US] (SP) (Contr)]

Sounds like it is an sssd problem. I’ll go talk to them. 

Thanks for the help
Nate

> On Mar 4, 2022, at 10:20 AM, Rowland Penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2022-03-04 at 10:59 -0600, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:
>> 
>>> On 3/3/22 17:47, Fuhriman, Nathanael [US] (SP) (Contr) via samba
>>> wrote:
>>> I have samba setup to share files on a system using SSSD hooked to
>>> AD for user accounts. Some users are able to access the shares and
>>> other are not. I finally narrowed it down to users that are in a
>>> specific OU in AD. Those in that OU can access the shares. All
>>> others are denied access. For examples users in OU=employees are
>>> able to access but users in OU=contractors are not able to access.
>>> 
>> 
>> From your description my suspicion is that a GPO is responsible for 
>> this, not Samba. What OU to suspect depends on how your network is 
>> configured; i.e. are all the shares coming from the same file
>> server? 
>> Does that file server have GPO-based access restrictions to that OU?
> 
> Could be a GPO but doubtful
> 
>> 
>> If it's not that, comb through your /etc/sssd/sssd.conf file looking
>> for 
>> anything that references that OU.
>> 
>> It could be samba if you have these restrictions embedded in your 
>> /etc/samba/smb.conf file, but I'm assuming you've checked for this
>> already.
> 
> As far as I am aware, Samba has nothing to restrict the search base in
> smb.conf, but I seem to remember that sssd has.
> 
> Rowland
> 
> 
> 
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