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

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:23:54 +0100
Marco Gaiarin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Mandi! Rowland Penny via samba
>   In chel di` si favelave...
> 
> > I tested on Gnome, MATE and XFCE on Debian 12, Cinnamon on Lmde6
> > and on Rocky Linux 9 and the only one that gave any problem was
> > MATE and that is a problem in its code (somewhere), it mounts but
> > is unusable.
> 
> Surely more then me. ;-)
> 
> 
> You've also setup a wiki page for that? Can i help?
> 

Okay, I have finally documented my version of this, the delay was
caused by:
A) it is Xmas
B) While I could get the desktop to mount, I found that GNOME &
Cinnamon wouldn't unmount it at logout.

I finally traced this to a timing problem, XCFE is quite happy with '
logout wait="200000"', Gnome & Cinnamon require 'logout wait="2000000"'

I also wrote a small bash script to create the users home directory on
the 'fileserver' on the fly.

You can find my notes here:

https://github.com/hortimech/Samba/blob/main/Mounting%20a%20domain%20users%20home%20directory%20at%20logon

Rowland