Questions tagged [samba4]

Question 1

We have a large AD domain with three Windows Server 2022 DCs. DNS registration and renewal works with Windows domain members. I do not have control over the DCs (although I can access them for ...

Question 2

I have a Samba4 server domain controller, using samba_internal as the DNS back end. After manually removing the eth0 IP address from the DNS zone, it is automatically re-added after a few minutes. ...

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I'm new to this and I don't know where to google for this issue anymore. I created a lab environment using VMs and created my own self-compiled, clean samba-dc 4.22 according to the manuals on samba-...

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I have been creating an email server with Samba AD and today it did not want to restart the DNS server with which I provisioned the domain. I have not been able to find any answers on the internet. ...

Question 5

I installed Samba 4 as a domain controller + fileserver. I provided access to folders via Samba. Now when I try to change permissions on folders and files from Windows Explorer, I need to find a user ...

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I am trying to upgrade my multi-node samba active directory domain from functional level 2008 R2 to 2016. I have 10 domain controllers all running the latest patch of samba 4.10 all with identical ...

Question 7

My home domain is named cn.lan. I have a server called wsubu.cn.lan which is recognized within my local active directory domain which uses samba. There is this tool: samba-tool that can be used to ...

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I have a network with Windows Server 2003 Active Directory server and Windows 11 computers. My plan is to replace Windows Server 2003 with Fedora Linux Server Edition - fedora 40. I could test it with ...

Question 9

Upgraded to latest on Ubuntu 24.04.1:samba-ad-dc/noble,noble,now 2:4.19.5+dfsg-4ubuntu9. Now I am not able to password auth a sudo group member if it is also a domain user while nsswitch.conf is ...

Question 10

I tried reading from a fifo on Windows via samba to see if it worked or not (I might have something interesting to do with it if it did), and found that it does not. ReadFile() returns 0 bytes ...

Question 11

I have provisioned a fresh new PDC on my new Raspberry Pi/ubuntu for the domain MYOFFICE.MYBUSINESS.CO.UK. This is the most cost-effective solution for my purposes as a freelance developer. I can ...

Question 12

I have a Linux device (QNAP NAS) that is serving a Samba share and uses Active Directory for authentication. It works seamlessly locally, but when users are working from home over a VPN, the VPN ...

Question 13

I have a linux client mounting a samba share with the following fstab entry: //<serverip>/<nameofshare> /home/user -o nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=15s,vers=3.11,user=<sambauser>,...

Question 14

I have 7 ubuntu servers and a Storage server on freebsd. I am considering deploying OpenLDAP on one of these 7 servers so that these servers can have a centralized user database and authentication ...

Question 15

I've got the following situation: Old Samba-server data.company.com Version 4.6.7 Configured as a PDC with workgroup = COMPANY for a population of Windows hosts with the following configuration: [...

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I am migrating a Samba domain to AD on Windows 2k19. The domain successfully replicated, and I transferred 5 of the 7 Samba FSMOs (there are 2 additional FSMOs that Samba claimed that Active ...

Question 17

I have a samba 4 domain with internal LDAP. Now the need arose to copy OpenLDAP users and passwords to this domain. This copy must be made synchronously every time there is a change in OpenLDAP. ...

Question 18

I have an Active Directory domain, with a domain controller running on Samba on Linux. I noticed that my Windows clients are having clock drift. I think this is because they really want the domain ...

Question 19

I want to configure Samba to manage Windows ACL and manage them from Windows via the security tab. The Samba server is standalone and not part of an AD tree; i already followed various offical and ...

Question 20

We have a TrueNAS System running TrueNAS-12.0-U8 for which we are required to log all successful and all failed file access attempts for a specific SMB share. The Samba version is 4.13. Per guidance ...

Question 21

I'm relatively new Zentyal user (few months), and I love it! But I've ran into a problem I hope someone can help me with. In my deployment I have two Zentyal servers (zentyal-1.mydomain.com and ...

Question 22

I am able to setup a samba shares shared among 400 users on ubuntu 20 as file server. As a part of policy after any user have completed his/her work they disconnect from share. The problem arises for ...

Question 23

I am attempting to create 2 separate shares using 2 very different configs. I can get both going individually from the same system, but not together. Regretfully, I still have some legacy systems ...

Question 24

I have since years an issue with Samba 4.3.11 and Windows 10 in a Domain with Samba Active Directory: The Users on Windows 10 will be shown as further logged on on the samba server (smbstatus -b) even ...

Question 25

I'm having an issue with syncing the unix permissions and ownership on the sysvol between two Ubuntu Samba AD DCs using unison. I have copied the idmap.ldb file from DC1 to DC2 and the Windows ...

Question 26

I'm facing a problem with my samba server. I had a Samba server but it was a very old configuration so I have reinstalled the OS (Debian 5.10.140-1) and the Samba (Samba version 4.13.13). But now all ...

Question 27

I want to setup 2factor authentication for both Linux and windows machine and want to manage the password via LDAP server. For this, I am using LDAP(which provides TOTP functionality) to authenticate ...

Question 28

i have a problem, i have a shared folder via samba, it works perfectly except if it has allot of files/folders, for example: one subfolder has 885 pdf's and browsing with linux i can see all of them, ...

Question 29

We're working towards a zero trust security model in our office, with servers secured behind a WireGuard VPN. We already use WireGuard for remote access, so this is the simplest way to ensure ...

Question 30

I'm writing this here just in case someone can help me out a little bit here, since I'm kind of lost. I'm managing a domain controller through Samba version 4.1.12 (installed in a Debian 7), a little ...

Question 31

On a long-term (2years) Arch Linux server, I am running a small samba configuration with several shares. I would like users to only see the shares which they have access to - which is why I am using ...

Question 32

Is there a way to completely disable usershare in Samba? Don't be confused with the users home share: man smb.conf Starting with Samba version 3.0.23 the capability for non-root users to add, modify, ...

Question 33

I'm trying to acess my samba server over the internet but I don't know how to do it without setting up a VPN or something which I don't want to do. I can't do anything with VPN's or router configs ...

Question 34

I'm really new in Active Directory world and I plan to migrate from Zentyal 7 (a stack of multiple tools packaged in an Ubuntu OS) to a pure Samba4 Active Directory, and keep the same domain name. I ...

Question 35

I'm attempting to export my samba users and then import them (the ultimate goal is to do this between machines, but right now I just want to do the one test user on my newly installed server). I've ...

Question 36

We are performing tests to deploy a Univention UCS domain with samba Active Directory in our company and, to comply with a security normative, we need to activate the GPO "Display information ...

Question 37

If I want to close a user session on a Samba server, the smbcontrol close-share and smbcontrol kill-client-ip commands are available to achieve this. However when dealing with a shared client (a ...

Question 38

I am trying to add domain trust account for additional kerberos5 (MIT) domain in Samba AD DC with command: net rpc trustdom add <domain_name> -UAdministrator%<administrator_password> What ...

Question 39

Gist: I have set up a samba as AD DC. I'd like to export a keytab for SPNs for a computer account only without having the computer to run samba itself, or issue net ads join. Running samba-tool domain ...

Question 40

Windows 10 client, using file explorer, OpenVPN Connect client 3.3.4, cannot access an SMB share with guest access on the OpenVPN server (2.4.11 arm-openwrt-linux-gnu) is running. Works: Can connect ...

Question 41

I am currently running a Samba server for file sharing on a SOHO network. I have noticed that one of the recent patches to Windows 10 seems to have introduced some sort of nasty bug with SMB that ...

Question 42

I have the following setup: A Samba server PDC acting as the Primary Domain Controller of a NT domain MYDOMAIN (not Active Directory!) A Windows 10 pro PC Win10 which is also a member of that domain ...

Question 43

We are a school and would like to use Visual Studio Code together with the Omnisharp extension. The students' working environment has the following characteristics Server-stored home directories ...

Question 44

We have an IDM Server on a Rocky Linux distro configured with a Trust to a Samba AD DC (also installed on a Rocky Linux). So we created a user 'usupru2' on Samba AD DC under adtest.uy domain. Then we ...

Question 45

I've installed Samba to share files with Windows 10 machines. The setup works correctly to access individual shares using their path such as \\myhost\sejf, but listing shares on \\myhost fails with ...

Question 46

I'm having all sorts of trouble getting a FRESH Windows Server 2019 to connect to a samba share on Truenas 12. Originally, when I tried to log in, Windows kept saying You Can't Access This Shared ...

Question 47

I followed these instructions: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller These instructions didn't work exactly as they read. There was one step I ...

Question 48

For reasons I can't get into at the moment, I'm authenticating to an SMB domain (using Samba 4.9.5 on a Debian host as the DC, if it matters) with a Mint Linux server in the domain with Samba 4.11.6 ...

Question 49

We are using samba configuration on our RedHat(RHEL7.9) systems, where SMB authentication is based on a NTLM password hash which basically a clear-text credential for a challenge-response ...

Question 50

Environment: fresh Debian 10 Samba 4.9.5-Debian as AD-DC, using internal LDAP, internal DNS, RFC2307 enabled, libnss-winbind enabled and configured, libpam-winbind enabled and configured fresh Debian ...