Comments on: FreeBSD: Setup Samba as an AD Domain Member

By: Angel Villa

Angel Villa — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 22:00:54 +0000

Hello,
I have followed the tutorial and I also ran into the error of the other user.
In another manual https://samba.ninja/2018/08/freebsd-11-active-directory-member-server, the smb4.conf file contains other lines that I have added, finally looking like this:

#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]
realm = MYLAB.LOCAL
workgroup = MYLAB
security = ADS
winbind enum users = yes
winbind enum groups = yes
winbind nss info = rfc2307
idmap config * : range = 100000-299999
idmap config * : backend = tdb
winbind use default domain = yes
winbind nested groups = yes
winbind refresh tickets = yes

template shell = /bin/sh
template homedir = /home/%D/%U

log file = /var/log/samba4/log.%m
max log size = 50

#============================ Share Definitions ==============================

Thank you for the manaul!

By: Kliment Andreev

Kliment Andreev — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 20:01:08 +0000

In reply to Iskimnya ..

Are you using FreeBSD and which version? Did you install samba 4.4 or some other version?
What’s the version of the Windows domain controller OS?
Can you send the smb4.conf file? Were you able to join the BSD box to AD with net ads join -U administrator?
Do you have these two lines in /etc/rc.conf?
samba_server_enable=”YES”
winbindd_enable=”YES”
When you start samba with service samba_server start, do you see winbind started? Can you see it running with ps -waux | grep winbind?
Any errors in /var/log/samba4 directory or /var/log/messages?

By: Iskimnya .

Iskimnya . — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:52:42 +0000

Thank you for this great article. I followed it until I reached getting users from active directory using wbinfo -u command. I got the following error:

could not obtain winbind interface details: WBC_ERR_WINBIND_NOT_AVAILABLE
could not obtain winbind domain name!
Error looking up domain users

Is there any solution for this issue?
thanks in advance.

By: foo foo

foo foo — Sat, 05 May 2018 11:14:42 +0000

Thank you for the guide! I have successfully connected two ESXi FreeBSD passthrough VMs to my domain network for Windows network ZFS storage, was able to get over 100MB/s throughput in CrystalDiskMark when mapped as network drive on 1000baseT network. Adapted slightly for Samba48 and krb5-116 on FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE. Also works great for Ubuntu 18.04 (almost exactly the same config). If interested, both guides are here: http://vlog.averyfreeman.com/doku.php/freebsd.tv.recording.computer and here: http://vlog.averyfreeman.com/doku.php/winbind_offline_logon Feedback welcome!