samba - Mar 2022 - stand-alone server with ldap-auth without AD

Hi,

is possible to configure a stand-alone samba server with 
authentification versus a readonly ldap (proxy) using 'passdb backend = 
ldapsam', sssd or winbindd, or something else, but not setting-up or 
joining an AD. Reason for this: ~30% of the computers using that 
samba-services are private computers, who's owners don't want to join an
AD.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
Torsten

Can you provide a little more information?


You want to setup a Samba server.???? Some of the clients have machines 
that they don't want to join to the domain but they still want to access 
resources on your server??? Presumably these are file shares ?

It seems to me that regardless of whether your server is joined to a 
domain, or is standalone, or has to access some other authentication 
server,??? that the client users still need accounts to connect to your 
server.


In the past I have setup Samba as "NT4" style domain controllers with
an
LDAP backend.????? This then adds the overhead of managing an LDAP server.



On 3/23/2022 7:25 AM, lists--- via samba wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is possible to configure a stand-alone samba server with 
> authentification versus a readonly ldap (proxy) using 'passdb backend 
> = ldapsam', sssd or winbindd, or something else, but not setting-up or 
> joining an AD. Reason for this: ~30% of the computers using that 
> samba-services are private computers, who's owners don't want to
join
> an AD.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Cheers,
> Torsten
>