Winbind is part of the Samba suite and provides an NSS and PAM layer for Unix/Linux systems to integrate authentication with a Windows domain

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Linux mail server allowing users access by windows clients without entering password [closed]

I have long been trying to solve a problem but I could not. I want to install a linux mail server allowing users access by by windows clients without entering password. I tried with a combination of ...
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Samba4 compiled from source alongside winbind repo package, not working with PAM

I am on Linux Mint. I have compiled and installed Samba4 from source and joined a Samba4 DC I have elsewhere on my network. I have also been trying to get Samba/winbind to work with PAM to ...
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Windows AD <-> Unix UID/GID mapping using winbind - idmap_ad?

We have the following setup: Windows 2012 Server as PDC some Linux machines, users should be authenticated against AD Debian Wheezy winbindd 3.6.6 Now I have to chose the right way to handle the ...
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CentOS 6 Unable to Resolve One AD Account

I have a problem that has got me going round in circles. We have 14 Centos 6 AD integrated servers using Samba/Winbind with idmap_ad (security = ads, idmap backend = ad), this setup is running ...
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Linux PAM pam_succeed_if.so

I've specified an AD security group in PAM to restrict which domain users can login. I've also restricted sessions for AD users to this group. This prevents a logged in user from doing an "su -" to ...
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solved - SSH instant logout after ssh login kerberos / winbind

I set up a ubuntu server which is authenticating against the active directory of our W2k8 Domain. Everything went well and I see all the users in getent passwd, and wbinfo. I want to be able to use ...
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Samba/Winbind: adding domain users to local groups based on domain group

I have a Redhat ES 6 server that's successfully joined to a domain via Winbind (i.e. I can login to the Redhat server using domain credentials with no issues). What I'm looking to do at this point is ...
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Samba Winbind User Resolution

We have successfully deployed AD authentication using Samba and Winbind (idmap_ad) across six Centos 6 servers and have been running happily for a few months now. One of the servers has stopped ...
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ubuntu server name resolution order

I am using LAMP on Ubuntu server, and I need to query MSSQL database on Windows XP machine, both on the same network. I use winbind to resolve SMB hostnames. My problem is name resolution order. It ...
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How to use Active Directory's homeDirectory attribute for Samba?

I currently have a Samba share setup where I would like to share Unix folders with Windows users, with Active directory as the backend. I see that there is an attribute called homeDirectory in Active ...
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Winbind info shows local users that do not exist

I am setting up Samba on a Linux machine running CentOS 6 (called localhost, and the AD computer I am connecting to is dc.companyname.com), and I have done everything successfully, except when I type ...
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Variables are not expanded in smb.conf when using Samba 4

I'm using Samba 4.0.0beta2 on Debian Wheezy as Active Directory domain controller. I also use winbind in my /etc/nsswitch.conf so getent passwd returns domain users. I've set template homedir = ...
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Restrict su to domain user in Winbind/Kerberos Linux AD integration

We've got some RHEL 5 servers joined to AD using Winbind/Kerberos which is working well overall. I've specified an AD security group in PAM to restrict which domain users can login. auth ...
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Group membership erratically lost after user logs in - Ubuntu, winbind, AD

I have a really strange issue where the wbinfo -g command properly indicates the AD domain group I am interested in and shows a particular user in that group - this is always true, so on the linux ...
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winbind trusted domain shows as offline

I have setup winbind on CentOS 6.3 following the steps outlined in the CentOS wiki and successfully joined the primary domain. ssh and su works for users in this domain as well as wbinfo -a. Running ...
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Logging into Linux server gives users 'domain users' for default group can it be changed?

I recently attached a RHEL 5 test box to our active directory server to try and get all of our users to not have to remember so many passowrds. I'm using winbind and samba and everything seems to be ...
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Active directory integration not working properly with winbind and samba

I'm trying to get my linux box to use active directory authentication. I believe I have almost everything setup correctly. I'm able to issue wbinfo -g and wbinfo -u and see all the groups and users ...
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pam auth via winbind, howto map primary group for users?

I have unix users authenticating to an PDC (via winbind) and want to have the primary group of those users a local unix group (e.g. www-data). users have the group "domain users" with gid 10006 (as ...
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LAN queries not resolved in BIND

I have a public url like app1.wifi.com,so that I can access my url from anywhere. Now I want to set that same url to my local machine. If I type app1.wifi.com from my LAN, it should routed to local ...
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Import Active Directory users into Unix/Linux/FreeBSD group

I need to have FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE p9 (running FreeNAS) import or associate Active Directory users (or Security Group) with a Unix/FreeBSD group. This way I can use FreeBSD group(s) security on a ...
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Winbind dont start when secutiry = ads

I have samba and Winbind over ubuntu server with the following smb.conf [global] ## Browsing/Identification ### # Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of ...
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Samba/Winbind issues joing to Active directory domain

I'm currently in the process of setting up winbind/samba and getting a few issues. I can test connectivity with wbinfo fine: [root@buildmirror ~]# wbinfo -u hostname username administrator guest ...
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debian hang on startup “starting the winbind daemon: winbind”

I took a copy of a VM running a debian, just so that I can play around with it. I spin up the copy, but didn't give it any network connection to avoid conflict with the original one. However, when I ...
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Linux with winbind, disable local users while AD is available?

Routers and switches with RADIUS authentication can be configured such that login is disabled for locally configured users as long as the RADIUS server is available. If the RADIUS server becomes ...
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Ubuntu + AD; Failed to join domain: failed to set machine spn: Constraint violation

I'm attempting to join a Ubuntu 12.04 server to Active Directory. I installed samba, and kb5-user, created a machine account in AD, and did: > net ads testjoin Join is OK So far so good. Then I ...
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On Solaris, how to log IP when using winbind auth and invalid user?

This is on Solaris 10 sparc platform. I'm trying to make our denyhosts script block the dictionary ssh attacks. Unfortunately, the logging does not show an IP when the user name is invalid. We are ...
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Joining Linux cloned VM to Active directory

Joining Linux host to Windows AD is widely documented.However I struggle to find any guides or best practices on how to join Linux clones that were already members of the domain. Naturally things ...
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pam_mount of smb share on rhel6, home directory not available for login - probably SELinux?

I'm using the Fedora 12 pam_mount / libHX RPMs on a RHEL 6 x86_64 system to automatically mount home directories from a NetApp system configured with NTFS-only security AD-bound logins work fine - ...
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CentOS 6 Automatic Join Domain

I have spent days working on setting up this server and have one last task to solve. I've set my CentOS 6 server to autologin and I need to find a way to get it to auto join the domain and then start ...
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How do Active Directory domain joined computers (native MS Windows or Linux with winbind) determine the closest password server?

How do Active Directory domain joined computers (native MS Windows or Linux with winbind) determine the closest password server? This question implies a cluster with 2+ Active Directory servers in ...
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Bringing Linux Accounts in Active Directory

I'm trying to centralize user login information via Active Directory. Currently I have AD running on Server 2008 R2. I do have Identity Management for UNIX installed on it. I also have a few Linux ...
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winbind from samba 3.6.3 on Linux works but does not integrate with OS?

Successfully compiled and installed the latest version of samba. Started winbindd and the following diagnostic commands work: wbinfo -p, wbinfo -c, net ads testjoin, etc... However! when using ...
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Fedora join to AD DS (svr 2008): NT_STATUS_INVALID_COMPUTER_NAME

I have been attempting to join my Fedora machine to my 2008 AD DS domain (testdomain.lcl) for some time now. I have followed this article: http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/?p=6 But with no luck. I ...
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Win Server 2008 force kerberos setting

I am currently facing the problem that a linux machine running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with samba and winbindd installed is unable to join a Domain, that is managed by a Windows 2008 DC. The linux config, ...
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Logging on as root without winbind timeouts

How can I set up my Linux box so that, if the Active Directory domain controller is down, I can still log in as root, without any timeouts or delays? Following the example of most of the ...
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Domain logon with Linux

I've set up Samba and winbind, and everything is working fine. I can see all AD users and groups, and corresponding relationships. I've also set up PAM authentication successfully. I have a local user ...
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Configure winbind to check multiple attributes in AD?

I have winbind up and running and it is working well for authentication. When a user is prompted at logon to provide credentials what AD attribute is username checked against? Is it name? ...
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CentOS 6 Gnome login immediately logs me out

Have a strange issue on freshly installed CentOS 6, with Samba Windows 2008 R2 authentication. The login succeeds, and even the home directory created, but then I'm thrown back to the login scren ...
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vsftpd with pam_winbind.so

I'm trying to setup vsftpd to use logins from our domain. I want the ftp users to be able to login using their active directory username/password and have be able to have full access to ...
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Linux computer (Debian) in a Windows Active Directory Domain, Administrator of AD should have root permission after login

I managed to join my Debian machine (Squeeze) to an existing Active Directory (MS Windows 2008 R2 Server). Everything works fine, I can login using accounts from the Active Directory (NTP, Kerberos, ...
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OpenSUSE 11 AD auth works, but not netbios

I've setup a desktop machine with OpenSUSE 11.4 and have Active Directory authentication working properly. I can ping, rdp and ssh to'/from other machines. I can access windows shares from OpenSUSE ...
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Authentication failure of OpenVPN client against Active Directory

I'm getting the following error (client side) when connecting to my OpenVPN server: AUTH: Received AUTH_FAILED control message and on the server I get thefollowing error message in teh openvpn ...
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saslauthd and PAM: “Too many open files” error - saslauthd restart fixes this - what is wrong?

I have a Postfix mail server running Debian Squeeze. SASL authentication for secure SMTP is supported by saslauthd which relies on pam, which relies on winbind. This pattern seems to be reoccuring ...
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Linux authentication via ADS — allowing only specific groups in PAM

I'm taking the samba / winbind / PAM route to authenticate users on our linux servers from our Active Directory domain. Everything works, but I want to limit what AD groups are allowed to ...
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Winbind/AD: Local users with identical AD usernames

We are getting ready to add Winbind/Samba to some CentOS servers. Identity Management for UNIX is running on our DC, and it's testing well so far. There is one scenario I'm having trouble with, and ...
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Best Management Practices for using Winbind?

I'm planning on migrating a few of our Linux servers to use AD authentication via SAMBA/Winbind. Operating system will be openSUSE 11.3 x64. Our AD environment does not have UNIX extensions ...
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winbind failing after a semi-random amount of time

I have winbind set up to authenticate to our AD for samba shares. This is the third such server, and the only one having any issues. It seems after a random amount of time samba shares will just stop ...
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Solaris 10: winbind can't connect to Active Directory

Goal: join a Solaris 10 machine to an existing Active Directory. Steps I did: Installed software (Samba 3.4.2 from http://www.sunfreeware.com) Received a Kerberos ticket with kinit ...
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Configure Winbind to get User Info from Windows

I need to configure SAMBA and Winbind on Ubuntu 10.04.1 clients to get their UID, GID, and home directory from Windows Active Directory. I have Windows Services for Unix installed with the relevant ...
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winbind and squid problem

I've have squid configured with auth in the AD via winbind now I have wired problems with authorisation I found in the logs interesting string kinit succeeded but ads_sasl_spnego_krb5_bind failed: ...

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