Samba4 is version 4 of Samba, the Linux implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocols. It is the first version of Samba with full Active Directory support, allowing a Linux server to become an Active Directory Domain Controller.
Questions tagged [samba4]
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SMBD Unexpected[???] termination
Environment
Server Ubuntu 16.* (x64)
smbd version 4.7.1
SMB Client, Explorer @ Windows 10
Use-case
Browse shared folder ( simple )
Problem at hand
A while after successfully browsing the folder the SMB client logs off and the SMB server exit(0) w/…

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smbd left running after user logs out from windows
I have few problems with my Samba4 Active Directory server.
First of all, when user logs out of Windows machine, corresponding smbd process sometimes doesn't end and keeps showing in smbstatus even after hour or more and needs to be killed manually…

David Novák
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Samba, FreeBSD, ZFS: Group permissions are ignored
I am running Samba 4.6 on FreeBSD 11 with ZFS. Each user belongs to the fileserver group. In addition, there are additional groups for each department, such as sales group.
And here comes my problem. On the server is a folder called sales. Which is…

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Older CIFS can not mount shares from Samba-4 server
I have a media-player, which used to connect to my main computer running Samba without a problem. It is running an old version of embedded Linux (kernel 2.6.22.19-27) and has CIFS.
At some point, after I upgraded Samba software on the server…

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Can't access samba share by hostname or FQDN, only by IP on Windows 2008 R2 Domain
I have a CentOS 7 server with Samba 4.6.2, joined to a Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain, and cannot access any shares from Windows using the server's hostname or FQDN, only by IP address.
I have verified DNS is working with nslookup for server to…

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After CentOS 7.4 upgrade samba panic
Hi we're running a Samba server 4.6.2 with Microsoft Active Directory integration. After upgrading CentOS 7.3 to version 7.4 our Samba server started throwing errors. Some users are unable to copy files from their desktop to the server.
Samba is…

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SSL self-signed certificate error on Samba 4
I'm currently preparing migration to Samba 4 at my office, and facing issues in my lab network.
Installed Samba 4 AD DC on a Debian 9 server, so far it's working properly, could join machines to the domain and access to Samba internal LDAP from…

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Samba - how to use domain users without a local user account
I have Samba 4 configured to authenticate domain users to my office's domain. (The Samba server is not a controller of any sort, just a file server). In my setup, I always use the force user and force group settings when defining a share, so that…

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OracleLinux 7.3 - Samba 4.6.2 - NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
I have ran into an issue with SAMBA during a recent server build. Below is a configuration I have used many times without issues.
Samba Configuration - (Anonymous is commented out but works fine when enabled)
[global]
workgroup = SAMBA
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Authenticating Samba Active Directory host with itself
So Ive been experimenting for quite some time now with running my Active Directory infrastructure on Samba based Domain Controllers.
And the for the most part it's been great! However one small problem that I've run into. That no one seems to have…

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Samba DNS records not found by bind
OK, so I had a Samba server managing a windows domain set up and running for quite a time, but I re-installed bind recently and this seems to have broken DNS for Samba. I have the situation that a DNS query with samba-tool works, but using "host" or…

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Kerberos login for existing domain: realm and workgroup don't match causing CLIENT_NOT_FOUND
I have recently inherited the responsibilities of maintaining our Samba domain controller which is used primarily for managing logging into the domain as well as serving as a secure file share. The initial configuration of this system is not…
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listing open files from shared folders
I have a Filer Server running Debian Jessie 8.7 on my network, with Samba 4.2.14.
Until now, I just have one shared folder configured for the entire network and I would like to watch if there are open files on this share.
When running smbstatus…

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How to modify uidNumber AD attributes on Samba 4.3 from the Linux command line?
I know I can set or modify RFC2307 attributes like uidNumber and gidNumber from the Windows side using RSAT.
Since this is rather painfull with larger numbers of users and groups I'd really like to find a way to do it on the Linux command line. Is…

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Samba file sharing with AD authentication doesn't work on some boxes
I have a few RHEL7 boxes, all of them are members in MS Win domain using SSSD.
All of these linuxes run Samba for file sharing with the same config.
Usually it works nice, but from time to time users cannot map Samba folders, with the following…

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