[Freeipa-users] Woes adding a samba server to the ipa domain

[Sumit Bose]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 07:49:11AM -0430, Loris Santamaria wrote:
> El lun, 20-10-2014 a las 21:19 -0400, Dmitri Pal escribió:
> > On 10/20/2014 09:15 AM, Loris Santamaria wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > 
> > > Trying to join the server to the domain (net rpc join -U domainadmin -S
> > > ipaserver) fails, and it causes a samba crash on the ipa server.
> > > Investigating the cause of the crash I found that pdbedit crashes as
> > > well (backtrace attached). I couldn't get a meaningful backtrace from
> > > the samba crash however I attached it as well.
> > > 
> > > Seems to me that the samba ipasam backend on ipa doesn't like something
> > > in the host or the "domain computers" group object in ldap, but I cannot
> > > see what could be the problem. Perhaps someone more familiar with the
> > > ipasam code can spot it quickly.
> 
> > Do I get it right that you really looking for
> > https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1588 that was just released
> > upstream?
> > It would be cool if you can try using SSSD 1.12.1 under Samba FS in
> > the use case you have and provide feedback on how it works for you.
> > 
> > AFAIU you install Samba FS and then use ipa-client to configure SSSD
> > under it and it should work.
> > If not we probably should document it (but I do not see any special
> > design page which leads me to the above expectation).
> 
> Ok, I'll happily try sssd 1.12.1.
> 
> Just a question, in smb.conf one should use "security = domain" or
> "security = ads"?

'ads' because we want to use Kerberos. But there some other
configuration options which needs attention, e.g. you have to create a
keytab for the cifs service and make it available to samba. I'll try to
set up an small howto page listing the needed steps and come back to you
early next week.

bye,
Sumit

> 
> Best regards
> 
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