samba - Jan 2023 - How to login with local account while Samba in AD?

Dears,

Forgive me maybe stupid question, but can I login to Samba share, with
local credentials, while it has joined AD domain? For now it seems it
always tries to authenticate every user in AD. We have issues with AD
itself, and until this is resolved I wanted to allow users use just one
common user/pass pair to access the share.

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Leszek A. Szczepanowski
twinsen at mspanc.net

On 11/01/2023 11:28, Leszek Szczepanowski via samba
wrote:
> Dears,
> 
> Forgive me maybe stupid question, but can I login to Samba share, with
> local credentials, while it has joined AD domain? For now it seems it
> always tries to authenticate every user in AD. We have issues with AD
> itself, and until this is resolved I wanted to allow users use just one
> common user/pass pair to access the share.
> 
That is how Samba is supposed to work, it maps AD users to make them 
local users, this depends on the idmap backend and is one of the reasons 
not use a DC as a fileserver.

You might be able to use the nss backend, but this will undoubtedly mean 
your users and groups getting different ID's.

It might be easier to fix your AD, so what are your AD issues ?

Rowland