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  • 1.  Samba and Active Directory set up

    Posted Wed June 26, 2013 03:24 PM

    Originally posted by: jgt157


    Is this the proper place to ask a question about setting up samba on aix with active directory?



  • 2.  Re: Samba and Active Directory set up

    Posted Wed June 26, 2013 04:40 PM

    Originally posted by: GarlandJoseph


    It can't hurt.



  • 3.  Re: Samba and Active Directory set up

    Posted Thu June 27, 2013 04:51 PM

    Originally posted by: jgt157


    Cool... Here's the scenario, I've set up pware64 samba on an AIX 6.1 system and have joined it to an AD domain.  The problem the set up is having is that users in the groups with full access (read, write and delete access) aren't able to write a file to the shares or delete a file unless I change the permissions of the directory to 777 (They were 775.)  The smb.conf file has the share set up for 775 access.  Can I add the groups to AIX so the users in the groups can access the shares at the group permissions level rather than the other permissions level.  If so, how should it be done? I hope I've explained this well enough.  Let me know if you want me to post the smb.conf file or any other information needed.  Thanks for the help.



  • 4.  Re: Samba and Active Directory set up

    Posted Tue July 16, 2013 05:25 PM

    Originally posted by: GarlandJoseph


    Did you resolve this issue yet?   Writes are successful when you set other to read-write-exec (7) so owner and group aren't being respected.   Question: When the users on the windows side map or connect to the samba share, do they actually get a window to specify the credentials (username password with respect to active directory) information...or does it just open up the share.?  If they do get a credentials windows, what is the result of that authentication...check both active directory server and samba logs.  



  • 5.  Re: Samba and Active Directory set up

    Posted Wed July 17, 2013 02:18 PM

    Originally posted by: jgt157


    Thanks for the reply.  I'll check with the customer and see if they are prompted or not.



  • 6.  Re: Samba and Active Directory set up

    Posted Thu July 18, 2013 10:41 AM

    Originally posted by: jgt157


    No, the users aren't prompted for a password.



  • 7.  Re: Samba and Active Directory set up

    Posted Thu July 18, 2013 11:07 AM

    Originally posted by: GarlandJoseph


    samba, aix and active directory are tough...could not solve this one without being able to hack at it...check out this article..it illustrates some of the complexities...http://community.centrify.com/t5/Centrify-enabled-Samba/Active-Directory-login-issues-with-AIX-WIN2k8-Centrify-Samba-and/td-p/6250



  • 8.  Re: Samba and Active Directory set up

    Posted Thu July 18, 2013 11:39 AM

    Originally posted by: jgt157


    Thank you.  I'll read through it and see if I can figure it out.  



  • 9.  Re: Samba and Active Directory set up

    Posted Fri August 23, 2013 03:37 PM

    Originally posted by: jgt157


    This article is for the version that Centrify puts out and looks interesting, but, unfortunately, the version for AIX 6.1 is not free and I don't think our customer will want to pay for this service.  Can anyone else help with this subject?

    FYI, their AIX 7.1 version is free.

    Thanks,

     

    Jim Thompson



  • 10.  Re: Samba and Active Directory set up

    Posted Wed September 04, 2013 01:44 PM

    Originally posted by: jgt157


    I"m having problems with luser seeing winbind on my server.  The luser -R WINBIND ALL returns error "Invalid -R option "WINBIND"".  It's listed in /usr/lib/security/methods.cfg and in /etc/security/user "SYSTEM = "compat or WINBIND".  Any idea why lsuser -R would consider WINBIND an invalid option?