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

[Christopher Lamb]

Hi

Yes, it's possible to operate freeIPA and Samba as you suggest, we have
been doing so for some years now (with several freeIPA and Samba versions).

Our end users use a mix of Windows and OSX laptops / workstations. These
are not members of any kind of domain. They access our file servers via
Samba shares authenticated by freeIPA.

The samba server is a freeIPA client.

The samba config on the freeIPA side looks like it was done along the lines
in the link
http://techslaves.org/2011/08/24/freeipa-and-samba-3-integration/

The ldap config in our samba smb.conf looks like this:

	security = user
	passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://ldap.my.example.com

	ldap suffix = dc=my,dc=example,dc=com

	ldap admin dn = cn=Directory Manager
        	ldap ssl = off

Cheers

Chris



From:	box 31978 <box31978 at gmail.com>
To:	freeipa-users at redhat.com
Date:	06.05.2015 23:18
Subject:	[Freeipa-users] freeipa-samba integration and windows clients
Sent by:	freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com



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?
- 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?

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

Regards,

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