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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Centos8: Selinux blocking Samba service from starting
My Samba4 service is being blocked from starting using systemctl. The audit log shows:
type=AVC msg=audit(1606428851.446:87): avc: denied { execute } for pid=1748 comm="(samba)"
name="samba" dev="dm-0" ino=1462831…

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Several redundant automatic entries for all DHCP client machine host names in Samba 4 AD DC DNS
We have a Samba 4 AD DC installation wich is also the DNS in our network.
It collects entries of all DHCP client machines with their addresses automatically. I can remember to have activated this behavior some day in the past, but can't remember…

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SAMBA: valid users ignores local samba user
I have a linux server (SLES12 SP5) in a Windows domain.
>smbd -V
Version 4.10.5-git.192.26ffbcd72313.11.1-SUSE-SLE_12-x86_64
Accessing samba shares with a domain user works very well.
Unfortunately I can't access the share with a local samba user,…

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Single sign on with Samba AD DC, Linux servers, GSSAPI/Kerberos and Windows clients that are not joined to the domain
Setup
We have:
a machine running Samba 4 on Debian Buster as AD DC.
another Debian Buster machine running Samba 4 as file server, joined to the domain with net join and using winbind for authentication (let's call this FILE).
a third Debian Buster…
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SAMBA AD DC visible from external DNS
I have configured fully functional SAMBA AD DC server. During AD provisioning process i set up SAMBA_INTERNAL as DNS back end. I couldn't use "NONE DNS", it is not supported.
I want to use external(from SAMBA) DNS in my local network which is also…

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Samba AD on Debian 10
I have 2 VMs running, one for Windows 10 Pro and a second with Debian 10.
Basically I would like to have the windows machine join the samba AD that's running on Debian 10 VM.
I went trough the installation of samba on Debian, but I'm having issues…
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Central authentication with Samba4 for applications
I have a small problem / doubt about the use of Samba4 as a central authenticator of external applications, I explain, I am instantiating a Samba4 server as a PDC for domain authentication for some computers with W10, but already taking advantage of…

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Samba file server as domain member: error when joining domain
I would like to set up samba 4 to share a local directory, so that domain users are allowed to mount the directory. I don't want domain users to be able to log in the linux machine, they should only be able to use the shared directory.
There are 3…

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Unable to set ADS security on Samba DC
I've been trying to set my security as ADS for my Samba DC. Unfortunately, whenever I do, the LDAP server can no longer be found using net ads info. Below is my current smb.conf.
[global]
workgroup = EXAMPLE
security = ads
realm =…

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Better samba4 logging
My default logging conf in smb.conf for samba-4.3.0 is:
log level = 1
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
The good thing is:
all samba logs is in the same directory;
each service and workstation has a single log file.
But still it is not perfect:…

Francesco Malvezzi
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Computers on preexisting Windows 2008 domain accepting accounts from Samba3/4 domain
I have a web application written in PHP where I would like to allow existing users to log into Windows computers, too. Re-hash of their passwords is doable (by requesting them to change the password). And to solve desync of passwords, I intend to…

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Samba4 provides high I/O load
I use sernet-samba package (version 4.0.9-6) on Debian 7. Samba configured as additional AD controller. Samba process infinitely writes something to disk and makes high I/O load:
Total DISK READ: 0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE: 204.37 K/s
TID…

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Today Samba just stopped working
So Samba4 has worked for the past 5 months with my current setup; however, today I attempted to connect to my share and I received this error:
\\{server} is not accessible. You
might not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact…

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Can't connect samba domain to RSAT GPM
I have created a domain using Samba4 and while RSAT DNS works perfectly with the domain, GPM says " The Specified Domain Either Does Not Exist or Could Not Be Contacted". How can i fix this?
nslookup returns
Server: UnKnown
Address:…

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how to export users from samba DC and import into MS Active Directory
I have Linux with running Samba DC. i want to export users and import into MS Active Directory and inverse.how do that?
Thanks a lot.

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