[Freeipa-users] freeipa-samba integration and windows clients

[Dmitri Pal]

On 05/06/2015 05:11 PM, box 31978 wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> These days I'm testing integration between FreeIPA4 and Samba4 at file 
> sharing level. Everything seems to work fine except share access from 
> a standalone Windows client.
>
> This is the setup (everything is up-to-date):
> - ipa-server: CentOS 7.1, ipa-server 4.1, ipa-server-trust-ad plugin
> - file-server: CentOS 7.1, ipa-client 4.1, samba 4.1 (sharing home 
> dirs, not a DC)
> - win-client: Windows 7 Home Premium
>
> Config is done following the FreeIPA's Samba integration guide, and 
> testing with samba-client from ipa-server (or any other ipa-joined 
> machine) to file-server using kerberos after calling kinit is 
> successful (file manipulation included).
>
> Attempts to connect to the same share from win-client ends up with a 
> log in error. Analyzing logs: Samba can't find the user because it 
> can't find any DC, and that's because Samba can't resolve workgroup 
> name (note that's not a question of SSO: win-client asks to type 
> username and password). It seems that maybe Samba is not handling new 
> kerberos ticket requests.
>
> By now, my questions are:
> - Can this setup work or it is absolutely necessary that any Windows 
> client expecting to access Samba shares have to be already joined to a 
> trusted domain?

Samba can have different ID sources. May be there is a way to somehow 
specify users that are not members of the domain locally on the Samba 
server. At least this is what I would research if I faced that issue.

> - If this setup can't be done, I'll go for an LDAP config in 
> file-server against ipa-server, but then, can I maintain the 
> file-server joined with ipa-client? Will it work?

Yes. With SSSD 1.12 on the file server it should work.
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/DesignDocs/IntegrateSSSDWithCIFSClient

>
> Feel free to ask whatever you want, any suggestions will be welcome. 
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
>
> A.
>
>


-- 
Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Director of Engineering for IdM portfolio
Red Hat, Inc.

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