In my earlier articles I had explained step by step guide for the configuration for Samba 4 and Samba 4.1 on Red Hat Linux OS. The links for the same can be found at the bottom of this page. But in those guides I had disabled my firewall which obviously can not be considered secure in ... Read more iptables rules for Samba 4 in Red Hat Linux
I have written one more article with the steps to configure FreeIPA server and client which can also act as an alternate to Microsoft Active Directory. And since FreeIPA is a GUI based, it can be a better alternative then Samba4. In my earlier post I had shown you the steps to install and configure Samba ... Read more Samba 4.1 as Active Directory configuration guide
Now when you have a successful running Samba4 domain server, you might come across a time when you will have to change the Administrator password. Let me show you the steps to do the same: Let us verify the details of the current password. As soon as you create a Kerberos password for authentication against ... Read more Changing password for Administrator in Samba4
Samba4 works smoothly without NTP so this becomes an optional case if you want to configure it but again if you ask me I will ask you to take it as a priority because there are times when I have seen due to gap of time interval between server and client the internet stops working ... Read more Configure NTP server for Samba4
If you are using samba4 then you might notice that the samba3 commands would not work with samba4 as you are manually compiling your machine with samba4 package so the commands will vary. Here I will show you some of the examples of Samba4 commands. samba-tool is used to change the Account settings of the ... Read more Samba4 related commands
A roaming profile is a feature of Domain server which allows users to access their personal data on any computer which is joined under the same domain on the same network. So basically the users are logging into their profile whose location is defined on the domain server. So every time a user logs in ... Read more Create Roaming Profiles in Samba4
