[Samba] Login from any workstation

[Rob Campbell]

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In all things, Be Intentional.


On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 3:40 AM Stefan Kania via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Authentication is no problem, just join the PC to the domain and
> configure the login for your distribution, depending on your
> windowmanager.For the home-dir you can use pam_mount. All settings for a
> user is located in $HOME so if you mount $HOME from a Server the user
> always has his own $HOME on any PC.
>
> That's what I was thinking would happen.  But when you log into a new
computer, the $HOME is created and default configurations are added.

 la /home/robcampbell/
total 72K
drwxr-xr-x 15 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:33 .
drwxr-xr-x  5 root             root              4.0K Nov 14 15:27 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users  220 Nov 14 15:27
.bash_logout
-rw-r--r--  1 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 3.5K Nov 14 15:27 .bashrc
drwx------ 11 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:33 .cache
drwx------ 12 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:33 .config
drwxr-xr-x  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 Documents
drwxr-xr-x  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 Downloads
drwx------  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:36 .gnupg
drwx------  4 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 .local
drwxr-xr-x  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 Music
drwxr-xr-x  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 Pictures
-rw-r--r--  1 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users  807 Nov 14 15:27 .profile
drwxr-xr-x  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 Public
drwx------  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:33 .ssh
drwxr-xr-x  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 Templates
drwxr-xr-x  2 HOME\robcampbell HOME\domain users 4.0K Nov 14 15:27 Videos

Am 13.11.22 um 04:51 schrieb Rob Campbell via samba:
> > I'd like to have all users be able to log into any laptop in the house.
> > They all have Debian 11 on them and I have joined them all to the domain.
> > Now I want all users to authenticate through the dc so I can easily
> manage
> > lockouts.  I also want roaming profiles so when they log on, every laptop
> > looks the same.  Is this possible with a samba configuration?
> >
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> > In all things, Be Intentional.
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