samba - May 2025 - Domain join hardening changes, trusted user

Hello,

we manage our Samba AD via an external IPAM/IDM (the AD is only one of several 
backends) and use a system user to create, modify and delete the objects 
including machine accounts in LDAP. All necessary rights are explicitly 
delegated to this system user, who is not a member of the ?Domain Admins? 
group.

This has been causing problems when joining Windows machines for some time. 
Previously, there was a workaround using registry keys, but this no longer 
seems to work properly with the latest Windows 11.

With a Windows DC, this user could be configured as a ?Trusted User? via GPO. 
However, this GPO does not seem to be evaluated by Samba and we have not found 
a corresponding smb.conf option.

Does the Samba community know if and how this can be implemented with Samba? 
This is configured on the DC, but is evaluated by the client. Accordingly, my 
assumption would be that some flag must be set, which can perhaps also be set 
via ldbedit. Does anyone know more about this?

Best regards,
Stefan

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5020276-netjoin-domain-join-hardening-changes-2b65a0f3-1f4c-42ef-ac0f-1caaf421baf8