I am attempting to get my redhat 8 server to authenticate to Active Directory. I can do a kinit and it appears it authenticates well but when I use smbclient //adserver/test (test is a share) -k it get prompted for a password and then the following returns:

OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790] Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2] tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

Does this mean I haven't configured my samba or kerberos correctly? I have validated my account id and password works and currently has domain admin rights.

Any ideas? Any thoughts, links, pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Brian

What user are you logged in as on the linux machine? is it the same username as the one on the windows server?

Yes. I am logging in as user id test with the password being the same on both systems. "test" has domain admin rights in AD and is a root users on the linux side.

do you not have a gui? have you tried to type smb:\\adserver into konqueror?

Did you create a machine account for the Linux computer on the Windows server?

I normally join Windows domains in two steps.


Create a computer account for the Linux machine on the domain controller.

Go to a command prompt on the Linux machine and type "smbpassword -j domain_name"

Replace domain_name with the name of your domain

Let me know if this works.

I think you need to do this:
vi /etc/samba/smbusers
type i for insert
type your local unix user name, then = then the user name you want to attach as.
type <esc><caps lock><z><z>

then type:
smbpasswd <windows user name>
type the password twice
then type service smb start
then try to connect to the windows machine