Hi All, I am currently trying to get a samba server setup on rocky. I have it currently setup to get credentials via a FreeIPA server hosted on another Rocky server via LDAP. At the moment I can access the share via the “other locations” menu in the file manager on an ubuntu laptop. Authenticatio…

I believe I may have worked it out, The only alternative to kerberos is ntlmv2, this is quite a bit less secure than kerberos but is better for compatibility with windows etc. The issue I was having was that when it was trying to mount the samba share it was trying to use ntlmv2 to get access, how…

How are you running Samba ? A start would be the output of ‘testparm -s’

Hi again, command used for mounting: sudo mount -t cifs //samba-srv<.domain.com>/folder /mnt/folder -o username=username,password=password,domain=password (as recommended by the forum) and this results in error 13 permission denied for clarification, testparm -s does not result in any errors an…

[image] Sw00sh_RY00: sudo mount -t cifs //samba-srv<.domain.com>/folder /mnt/folder -o username=username,password=password,domain=password Where it says ‘domain’ it is referring to the NetBIOS domain, so you should not be entering the password, unless that is a typo or your NetBios domain is …

yes this is correct, that command was just used for testing as it was mentioned in the topic linked previously. the command that works now for me is sudo mount -t cifs //samba-srv<.domain.com>/share /mnt/folder -o username=username,password=password,domain=domain,vers=3.0

Samba authentication using LDAP credentials

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Samba authentication using LDAP credentials

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