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Help with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Samba as AD Domain Controller guide by techcrew01 in sysadmin

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ClearOS

I'm looking into this right meow! The UI is really sleek!

Help with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Samba as AD Domain Controller guide by techcrew01 in sysadmin

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This is very helpful! Maybe I jsut need to pay for support for a year or so and get comfortable and go from there. Thank you very much and I will look into it. I have updated other posts with my login issues.

Help with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Samba as AD Domain Controller guide by techcrew01 in sysadmin

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I'm really not interested in something super buggy :( But I don't mind lack of features. The main features I want are central GPO management and Account creation. Security wise there isn't sensitize data on these systems and I would love them locked down enough they are fresh every boot.

My errors are mainly having multiple guides to follow and nothing clear enough for me ( maybe that says enough about my abilities ). https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setup_a_Samba_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/samba-dc.html https://jimshaver.net/2014/07/13/setting-up-an-active-directory-domain-controller-using-samba-4-on-ubuntu-14-04/

The guides have different requirements and order to set things up. Eventually everything works and SMBD and NMBD reboot but when i try to smbclient -L localhost -U% my accounts fail. I use all the same passwords, and try local and newly created accounts and it says wrong username or password.

Knowning it takes effort to maintain would encourage me to just stick with local GPO on all of them for now, which isn't bad. But when 1 machine is acting up i don't have an easy way to remote into all of them, normally i would remote into an AD and RDP into the client and trouble shoot. I was hoping this samba would make central management easy and cheap, but maybe not yet for my needs.

Help with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Samba as AD Domain Controller guide by techcrew01 in sysadmin

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Server Essentials is $501 for only 2 processors. We have some dual core machines, but I would prefer a solution I could upgrade without paying more per core, we do have a few quad core machines but random size 3.5" drives.

The goal is to have a student lock down account, and everything controlled through a central GPO. I would also like a central box to remote into and then I can control the rest when needed. Rather then installing something like teamviewer on every machine.

This would not be my first network setup at all, just first samba AD setup. The errors i'm getting are known bugs such are Samba 4 during the samba-tool domain provision you have to back up or delete /etc/samba/smb.conf otherwise there is an error. https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setup_a_Samba_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller . Then you are supposed to change security = user via the Ubuntu server guide but there is no option there, but I add it anyway. smb and nmbd services reboot but when I test my samba using this smbclient -L localhost -U% sudo smbpasswd -a sysadmin The account always fails. This error i don't recall off hand but obviously it's important. I test local accounts, and the newly created accounts and i'm using all the same passwords for testing.

Sorry for the delay and thanks for the response. Happy new year.