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.
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Samba4 as an Active Directory Controller and bind9 zones
I am trying to setup Samba4 as an active directory controller by following these two tutorials:
http://www.matrix44.net/cms/notes/gnulinux/samba-4-ad-domain-with-ubuntu-12-04
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO
Before setting up samba4 I…

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Active Directory Domain with SAMBA or Other Tool
Can I create a domain using SAMBA and set up Active Directory with SAMBA on it? And by this I mean no windows servers involved. I would also like to be able to log in from a Windows machine. Preferably on OpenSuSE.
My objective is to have a domain…

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Windows 10 clients flooding Samba servers with phantom guest login attempts
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 causes Windows 10 to spam unauthenticated guest…

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in-addr.arpa zone delegation in Bind 9 and Samba 4 as an AD DC with DDNS
Environment and goals
In my testing KVM lab I have a virtual network 172.16.50/24, in this network I have got 2 Centos 7 VMs running Bind 9 and ISC DHCP servers:
Мастер DNS : controller.wsvirt.home (172.16.50.2)
Slave DNS: controller2.wsvirt.home…

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Samba4 server visible with IP on the network
I have a Samba4 AD setup. I cannot understand why the server is visible on the net only by its IP address and not by hostname.
The configuration looks ok to me, the same as we have in other places where it's working as expected.
If I try accessing…

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SMB Signature Verification Return Error= -13
Setting up a backup server for the purpose of backing up several other servers in our group. Mounting one of the shares I need to backup causes the server to complain:
fstab entry:
//10.0.10.228/Corporate /mnt/server/Corporate cifs…

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Ubuntu 18 inserting leading space to username
We have an Ubuntu 18.04 client authenticating against a Samba 4 Active Directory.
On this client (and this client only) when a specific user (and this user only) logs in via ssh, tty, or the GUI (at the terminal) his user name and path to his home…

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How do I run Docker containers as a Active Directory-domain user (SSSD)? ("unable to find user")
I am running several Samba-shares on a dedicated Debian 9.6 machine joined to an AD-domain (Zentyal with SMB 4).
I am using a pretty straight-forward SSSD installation that has so far worked out perfectly for our needs.
I want to set Ambar up so…

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samba: why mode of mounted file changed?
The mode of file on server is "644" but when I access through the mount, the mode is "755". I want to keep mode the same. Both server and client are ubuntu system.
This is the smb.conf.
[shared]
comment = shared directory
path = /share
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Store data with an AD user in LDAP
I'm migrating from samba3+ldap to a samba4 domain (with samba 4.7.6-Ubuntu). Part of this migration has to be the storage of some data our services need in the user objects. (Nextcloud quota, alternative mail addresses, ...)
I've added my own schema…

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How can I list all of the groups given user belongs to in the samba4 domain?
I have a samba4-based domain. How can I list all of the groups to which given user belongs?
I know I can go the reverse way - iterate via all the groups [ samba-tool group list ] and see their membership [ samba-tool group listmembers $groupName ],…

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protocol negotiation failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_RESET
This may look like an old thread. But I tried all types of solution which are provided. But no luck.
I have a Shared Folder from fileserver(windows server 2012 R2 - default samba 2.1)
My client side configurtion are:-
Version 3.5.10-114.el6
The…

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Samba 4: Convert Current Setup to Active Directory
I'm running Samba 4 on RHEL 7, and we've come to a point where end users are going to need more control over folder permissions.
My question is twofold:
Is converting my Samba setup to Active Directory the only (or even the best) solution for…

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Samba doesn't map users to domain
I'm starting to manually migrate my samba3 (or now samba4 classic)
servers into a new samba4 AD domain. (All new servers are running with
v4.7.4.) The DCs are running fine and I'm testing my first member server.
Works well with Windows 10 domain…

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Getting an error when starting Samba
I am using Zentyal 5 on my original samba DC (containing Samba Version 4.6.7-Ubuntu). I am trying to join another DC of the same version to this existing DC, and I keep getting this error when I try to start samba:
ON EXISTING DC
Error setting…

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