Configuring Winbind on a Samba AD DC on Debian 9

Posted on Tue 26 February 2019 in blog

In the previous post, we set up a Samba 4 DC. In this post, we'll configure Winbind on that Linux machine so all of the Samba-controlled UIDs/GIDs will resolve to their AD names. We'll also set things up so we can SSH and sudo appropriately.

Prerequisites

We'll assume that …


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Setting up a Samba 4 Domain Controller on Debian 9

Posted on Mon 11 February 2019 in blog

Let's set up Samba 4 to serve as an Active Directory (AD) Domain Controller (DC) on Debian 9.

Prerequisites

We'll start with a headless install of Debian 9, selecting only "SSH server" and "standard system utilities" during Software selection.

We'll also assume that your server is set up with the …


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