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

Dmitri Pal dpal at redhat.com
Thu Oct 30 00:49:05 UTC 2014


On 10/29/2014 05:01 PM, Loris Santamaria wrote:
> El mié, 29-10-2014 a las 21:40 +0100, John Obaterspok escribió:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I've tried this as well. My IPA is not connected to an AD. My smb.conf
>> looks almost the same. The differences are:
>> - I got the default workgroup set (MY or something)
>> - No FILE:/ prefix for keytab file
>>
>>
>> I had the samba and ipserver on the same box so I just had to add the
>> cifs server and get keytab file in the same way.
>> I was a bit surprised to see that accessing samba using "smbclient -k
>> \\..." worked right away from a linux box. Then stopped working if I
>> did kdestroy.
>>
>>
>> But, I never got it to work from Windows. The Windows PC is not joined
>> to any AD, it uses MIT Kerb client 4.0.1 and I successfully get tickes
>> and can sshlogin via putty without password.
>>
>>
>> Any ideas on how to get this going from Windows as well?
> I guess you should prepare the ipa server for a windows domain trust
> (even if you won't setup any trust with an ad domain), with
> ipa-adtrust-install. Beware that it will overwrite your smb.conf.
>
> With that configuration and the steps described in
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2013-September/msg00226.html you will be able to use the native windows kerberos libraries and you should be able to open a samba share with your kerberos credentials.
>
> Best regards
>
>
>
>
Would by any chance you be able to create a HowTo solution on the 
FreeIPA wiki?
Seems like it would be a simple cut&paste from couple mails. Thanks in 
advance!

http://www.freeipa.org/page/Contribute/Documentation
http://www.freeipa.org/page/HowTos

-- 
Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
Red Hat, Inc.

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