Samba server: Sharing files with Windows clients

[Bristol, Gary L.]

You can also use AD Kerberos authentication for the local accounts, so that the user doesn't have to remember different passwords.

The local account on the Linux server will have to same name as the one in AD.

The Linux Server does not have to be a member of the domain to accomplish this authentication.

I do have the instructions available for anyone that would like to set that up.


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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:42:41 -0400
From: "Blackburn, Marvin" <mblackburn at glenraven.com>
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Subject: RE: Samba server: Sharing files with Windows clients
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We are working on something very similar to this.  I had the same type
of questions.
Since we had a very limited rollout, I really didn't want to add my
Linux-cifs server to the domain because I wasn't sure of the
consequences (both technically and politically), so we just do
authentication locally -- this requires the user to have a
username/password on the server and does not involve AD.

I'll be glad to share my smb.conf file.  I'm still working out some
messages in the /var/log/messages file, but it looks as if its working
to some extent.  We are in the testing phase.