Once upon a time, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> said: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net> wrote: > > I have an existing office of Windows computers, in a domain, with a > > couple of Windows Server 2012 AD servers. I need to add a file server, > > so I'd prefer to use CentOS 7 and Samba to do it (because I know very > > little about Windows). However, I'm not finding a good how-to on that. > > When I search for "samba active directory" or "samba domain", the > > results are mostly about setting up Samba to be the domain controller, > > or join an AD domain as a controller, which I don't really want to do if > > I don't have to. > > > > Anybody have any tips, pointers, etc.? > > If you expect existing domain credentials to work, I think you have to > join the domain. Depending on the nature of the files being served, I > sometimes find it useful to have a public read-only share and avoid > the authentication mess entirely - copying the files in place with > linux tools or winscp. It is possible to maintain local accounts on > the linux side and add those to samba (an extra step) but it is > painful to keep passwords in sync. Yeah, I want to join the domain, and use domain credentials for access, I just don't want to be an additional domain controller (which is what the docs/howtos I keep finding seem to assume). I've done Samba with basic locally-configured users before (not in a long time), but this needs to use domain credentials. -- Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>