[Samba] winbind active directory credentials

Jeremy Allison
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:01:10 -0000

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:48:12AM +0000, Dylan Canfield
wrote:
> I am trying to integrate Samba with our Active Directory server and map
> Active Directory groups to local unix groups.
>
> The problem is that our AD server does not allow anonymous users or
> computer objects to query infomation about users or groups. For this
> reason, using the net command to join the AD is not helpful. I am seeing a
> lot of "NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED" lines in the winbind log because
of this.
>
> Is there a way to specify a username and password for winbind to use
> when connecting to the AD server?
>
> I am running Samba 3.5.9 and 32bit RHEL5
>
> If any portion of the samba configs or logs would be useful I will be
> happy to provide them.
>
> Thanks in advance for you help.

Check out the:

net setauthuser

command. This should do what you need.