Samba, Active Directory
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Samba
- Using Samba can make sense in some cases, as more clients support Samba than NFS. For instance, 4XVR Video Player supports Samba but not NFS.
- Setting up Samba is pretty quick. Here is a good tutorial that works fine on Debian.
Active Directory
- This is a quick tutorial explaining how to interact with a Windows Active Directory server. The main goal here was to mount directories on the Windows server.
- The official reference on the Gentoo wiki has a lot more information.
Prerequisites
- You need to have Samba installed with the kerberos USE flag.
- Edit the files /etc/krb5.conf and /etc/samba/smb.conf correctly.
- VERY important: Add the Windows PDC (Primary Domain Controller) as a DNS server. Else you won't be able to join the Windows domain!
Creating the ticket, joining the domain
- You must first create the ticket with the kinit command. This seems to create an authentication ticket that is valid for a period of time (one day or such).
- After that, you must join the domain, which means that the server knows that your machine is authorized to be present on the domain. This is accomplished via the command:
net ads join -U elvanor
Operations
- Once this is done, you can start working with the Windows service. The only thing I have done so far is mounting shares, via the smbmount command. This is fairly easy.