samba - Dec 2024 - Linux desktop setup with authentication against Samba AD DC

On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:23:54 +0100
Marco Gaiarin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Mandi! Rowland Penny via samba
>   In chel di` si favelave...
> 
> > I tested on Gnome, MATE and XFCE on Debian 12, Cinnamon on Lmde6
> > and on Rocky Linux 9 and the only one that gave any problem was
> > MATE and that is a problem in its code (somewhere), it mounts but
> > is unusable.
> 
> Surely more then me. ;-)
> 
> 
> You've also setup a wiki page for that? Can i help?
> 
Okay, I have finally documented my version of this, the delay was
caused by:
A) it is Xmas
B) While I could get the desktop to mount, I found that GNOME &
Cinnamon wouldn't unmount it at logout.

I finally traced this to a timing problem, XCFE is quite happy with '
logout wait="200000"', Gnome & Cinnamon require 'logout
wait="2000000"'

I also wrote a small bash script to create the users home directory on
the 'fileserver' on the fly.

You can find my notes here:

https://github.com/hortimech/Samba/blob/main/Mounting%20a%20domain%20users%20home%20directory%20at%20logon

Rowland

On 23.12.2024 11:49, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:23:54 +0100
> Marco Gaiarin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> Mandi! Rowland Penny via samba
>>    In chel di` si favelave...
>>
>>> I tested on Gnome, MATE and XFCE on Debian 12, Cinnamon on Lmde6
>>> and on Rocky Linux 9 and the only one that gave any problem was
>>> MATE and that is a problem in its code (somewhere), it mounts but
>>> is unusable.
>> Surely more then me. ;-)
>>
>>
>> You've also setup a wiki page for that? Can i help?
>>
> Okay, I have finally documented my version of this, the delay was
> caused by:
> A) it is Xmas
> B) While I could get the desktop to mount, I found that GNOME &
> Cinnamon wouldn't unmount it at logout.
>
> I finally traced this to a timing problem, XCFE is quite happy with '
> logout wait="200000"', Gnome & Cinnamon require
'logout wait="2000000"'
>
> I also wrote a small bash script to create the users home directory on
> the 'fileserver' on the fly.
>
> You can find my notes here:
>
>
https://github.com/hortimech/Samba/blob/main/Mounting%20a%20domain%20users%20home%20directory%20at%20logon
>
> Rowland
>
>
Hi Rowland,

Great write up.

But I don't understand the purpose of the homes share in smb.conf in 
this context. It's really not necessary. The user's home directory gets 
created on logon, and is removed (hopefully) at? logoff by pam-mount. My 
specific aim was to make sure any files or directories on the client are 
removed after logoff.

Anyway, I replicated 10 PCs (identical hardware) from my master image. 
Each PC took less than 10 minutes to configure. This included copying 
the .xsessionrc to each user home directory on the server. Copying the 
master image over the network took some time, however. That of course 
depends on the disk size and network speed. But one can do other tasks 
while the copy process is running.

Best regards,

Peter