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Secure Samba File Sharing To password-protect a samba share, you need to create a group “smbgrp” and set a password for each user. In this example I use aaronkilik as user and password as “tecmint“. Note: The samba security mode: security = user requires clients to enter a username and password to connect to shares.
How does samba integrate with Active Directory?
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- Preparation.
- Install some utils.
- Configure Kerberos.
- Configure SAMBA.
- Test your SAMBA server.
- Configure your share.
- ACL Support.
- Set domain groups to your share.
What is ACL in samba?
Extended access control lists (ACL) enable you to set permissions on shares, files, and directories using Windows ACLs and applications. Samba supports shares using extended ACLs on: Domain members. Active Directory (AD) domain controllers (DC)
What is force user in Samba?
Forcing User or Group Ownership In the file /etc/samba/smb.conf you can use the directive: force user = [user] force group = [group] This will override the normal file ownership attributes for file or directory access. Be default, the effective user credentials are used.
How to restrict access to particular samba users?
A ll my local Linux or Unix user accounts will be able to log in to my Samba server and access share. How do I restrict access to particular users or network subnet such as 192.168.2.1/24? /etc/hosts.allow – This file describes the names of the hosts which are allowed to use the local INET services, as decided by the /usr/sbin/tcpd server.
How to add a group to a samba domain?
It is part of the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT). The examples used below add a AD domain group „SAMDOM\\Wks Admins“. Groups can be added to the AD using ‘samba-tool’ or Active Directory User and Computer (ADUC).
Instead of using a group name I tried for testing with my personal account valid users = SWI\\\\domscheit (and some more variants). However always the same error. getent group T_UNIX_MCMS and getent passwd domscheit all return valid entries.
How is samba used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Samba implements the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The SMB protocol is used to access resources on a server, such as file shares and shared printers. You can use Samba to authenticate Active Directory (AD) domain users to a Domain Controller (DC).