[Samba] Linux desktop setup with authentication against Samba AD DC

[Peter Milesson]

On 01.12.2024 15:14, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 19:23:26 +0000
> Rowland Penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 19:03:04 +0100
>> Peter Milesson via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Rowland,
>>>
>>> I haven't a deep knowledge of what packages are sufficient, and
>>> which ones are superfluous. I will test the setup without
>>> libpam-krb5.
>>>
>>> About the wiki page, it's Archlinux' AD integration page on
>>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Active_Directory_integration. I
>>> really didn't follow it, and used what I set up on Debian instead.
>>> The Archlinux pam_winbind.conf example will probably break most
>>> kerberized applications, as the place of the Kerberos ticket cache
>>> is non standard. It would be necessary to configure all applications
>>> using cached Kerberos tickets in that case. Even Archlinux puts the
>>> Kerberos ticket cache in /tmp default. Defaults are there for some
>>> reason...
>> Based on what I have been using on Debian for quite some time, I
>> cannot recommend following the Arch Linux wiki page, there are just
>> too many apparent problems.
>>
>> I was going to attempt to use Rocky Linux 9 as client, but pam_mount
>> appears to be only available from EPEL and I cannot easily find
>> hxtools. It appears that redhat is moving away from the desktop and
>> concentrating on servers.
>>
>> Rowland
>>   
>>
> Well, the next test was a failure, not in the mount, but in usability.
> Attempting to mount the users desktop on a Debian 12 Unix domain
> member with the MATE DE worked up to a point. It mounts the directory,
> but mate-panel keeps segfaulting, the two panels keep disappearing and
> reappearing, and trying to click on anything on the panels (when they
> are visible) is futile.
>
> Lets try the gnome desktop.
>
> Rowland
>   
>
Hi Rowland,

The LXDE desktop works 100%. I haven't used the Mate desktop for many 
years, compiled it for Slackware 14.2 the last time, and what I 
remember, it was not straight sailing, but worked in the end. I'm not a 
great friend of Gnome, so I let be. Maybe I will try KDE, but that's not 
a priority. I will however, try LXQt. I use Qt Creator for programming, 
so most of the Qt base packages should already be there.

Good luck with Gnome!

Peter