samba - Apr 2015 - How do you join a Linux mailserver to a Samba domain?

I'm running Samba 4.1.6, Ubuntu 14.04 with Dovecot, Postfix & SOGo

When I try to connect to the mailserver via Thunderbird, it gives me a 
specific error --

Unable to open the summary file for Inbox. Perhaps there was an error on 
disc, or the full path is too long.

I've looked at (and reset) file permissions on the local drive where 
mail is stored but not the mailserver, and I'm wondering whether the 
mailserver needs to be identified in Samba somewhere (AD MMC)

I tried to create a new user in ADUC on Windows (using the AD MMC)

and received another error that appears to relate to the issue --




I presume it's speaking of storage space in my Samba AD DC but
"df"
shows otherwise.

Can someone point me to a tutorial?

Greetings, Steve Ankeny!
> I'm running Samba 4.1.6, Ubuntu 14.04 with Dovecot, Postfix & SOGo
> When I try to connect to the mailserver via Thunderbird, it gives me a 
> specific error --
> Unable to open the summary file for Inbox. Perhaps there was an error on 
> disc, or the full path is too long.
> I've looked at (and reset) file permissions on the local drive where 
> mail is stored but not the mailserver, and I'm wondering whether the 
> mailserver needs to be identified in Samba somewhere (AD MMC)
I'm not entirely sure you can do it with 14.04. Last I check it lacks
necessary packages. But here's the list of things you need:
1. Samba server joined AD.
2. Correctly set IDMAP on the server.
3. libnss-winbind and libpam-winbind
4. getent passwd <username> should return AD users proper.
5. Dovecot using PAM auth.

Given 1-4 working proper, p.5:

# doveconf -n
# 2.0.19: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.13.0-49-generic i686 Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
disable_plaintext_auth = no
mail_privileged_group = mail
mbox_write_locks = fcntl dotlock
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
protocols = pop3 imap
ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}

Works like a charm for me.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, April 24, 2015 01:06:33

Sorry for my terrible english...

thx, Bob . . .

The e-mail problems appears to be a permissions and summary file issue.

I gave the users Administrative permissions, and everything worked 
perfectly.  Then I compacted the folders and rebuilt the summary files, 
took away Administrator permissions, and everything STILL works perfectly.

When I posted the question, I wondered if there was some step in joining 
the mailserver I'd missed.

I'm told when Microsoft Exchange is installed, it adds entries to Active 
Directory, and I wondered about alternative mailservers.  I see no place 
in the ADUC MMC to identify the SOGo/Dovecot mailserver.

The same server functions as the Samba AD DC, and alternatively, I 
wondered if I should use a Windows Server as a Domain Controller 
pointing back to Samba AD DC  Would that identify my mailserver?

I also don't understand why the ADUC MMC failed to created a "new"
user.

On 04/23/2015 03:38 PM, Bob Miller wrote:
> It's getting quite far out of date, so I dont' publish links to it 
> publicly, but you can find how to configure dovecot for samba4 here:
>
>
http://cocnm.computerisms.ca/index.php/Install_Qmail-ldap,_Dovecot,_and_Related_Email_Services#Obtain_and_Install_Dovecot
>
>
> On 15-04-23 12:20 PM, Steve Ankeny wrote:
>> I tried to create a new user in ADUC on Windows (using the AD MMC)
>>
>> and received another error that appears to relate to the issue --
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I presume it's speaking of storage space in my Samba AD DC but
"df"
>> shows otherwise.
>>
>> Can someone point me to a tutorial?
>>
>

SOGo/Openchange is not willing i f it is not holding the fsmo roles. And by
the way in an multiple DC replicating environment you can kill your domain
on the fly even with
a real "Exchange-Server" if you are not carefull  enough.
So the only way to make OPenchange live in your domain ist o join it as dc.
And status of development as far as I know this is hard to do.
Or you manage to provision as new domain and write a script per scp to add
users to both domains.


Good Luck
Daniel


EDV Daniel M?ller

Leitung EDV
Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus
Paul-Lechler-Str. 24
72076 T?bingen 
Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499
eMail: mueller at tropenklinik.de
Internet: www.tropenklinik.de 



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Von: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org]
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Auftrag von Steve Ankeny
Gesendet: Freitag, 24. April 2015 13:40
An: Bob Miller; samba at lists.samba.org
Betreff: Re: [Samba] How do you join a Linux mailserver to a Samba domain?

thx, Bob . . .

The e-mail problems appears to be a permissions and summary file issue.

I gave the users Administrative permissions, and everything worked
perfectly.  Then I compacted the folders and rebuilt the summary files, took
away Administrator permissions, and everything STILL works perfectly.

When I posted the question, I wondered if there was some step in joining the
mailserver I'd missed.

I'm told when Microsoft Exchange is installed, it adds entries to Active
Directory, and I wondered about alternative mailservers.  I see no place in
the ADUC MMC to identify the SOGo/Dovecot mailserver.

The same server functions as the Samba AD DC, and alternatively, I wondered
if I should use a Windows Server as a Domain Controller pointing back to
Samba AD DC  Would that identify my mailserver?

I also don't understand why the ADUC MMC failed to created a "new"
user.

On 04/23/2015 03:38 PM, Bob Miller wrote:
> It's getting quite far out of date, so I dont' publish links to it 
> publicly, but you can find how to configure dovecot for samba4 here:
>
> http://cocnm.computerisms.ca/index.php/Install_Qmail-ldap,_Dovecot,_an
> d_Related_Email_Services#Obtain_and_Install_Dovecot
>
>
> On 15-04-23 12:20 PM, Steve Ankeny wrote:
>> I tried to create a new user in ADUC on Windows (using the AD MMC)
>>
>> and received another error that appears to relate to the issue --
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I presume it's speaking of storage space in my Samba AD DC but
"df"
>> shows otherwise.
>>
>> Can someone point me to a tutorial?
>>
>
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