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    • thanksajdotcom
      thanksajdotcom last edited by

      So I think I've finally got enough machines at home that I can warrant setting up a domain in my apartment. All my Windows licenses are Pro licenses so I can join all my machines to the domain. I would also like to setup my Linux boxes to authenticate via LDAP, or at least like some advice on that. A unified login for everything (except my NASes at this point) will be awesome! Pl.us, this is a good project. It'll be running on Server 2008 R2. I have 7 Pro and 8.1 Pro in my network, as well as Ubuntu Server 14.04. Any advice?

      Thanks,
      A.J.

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      • coliver
        coliver last edited by

        I think you said you use Ubuntu predominantly? If you use the GUI it is very simple to join the Ubuntu machine to an AD domain.

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        • thanksajdotcom
          thanksajdotcom @coliver last edited by

          @coliver said:

          I think you said you use Ubuntu predominantly? If you use the GUI it is very simple to join the Ubuntu machine to an AD domain.

          I have no GUI on Ubuntu Server.

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          • IRJ
            IRJ last edited by

            Why are you doing this to yourself?

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            • coliver
              coliver @IRJ last edited by

              @thanksaj said:

              @coliver said:

              I think you said you use Ubuntu predominantly? If you use the GUI it is very simple to join the Ubuntu machine to an AD domain.

              I have no GUI on Ubuntu Server.

              Sorry I was trying to remember the authentication module that Ubuntu has. It is called winbind

              https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryWinbindHowto

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              • coliver
                coliver @IRJ last edited by

                @IRJ said:

                Why are you doing this to yourself?

                Because it is a really good exercise and practice?

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                • MattSpeller
                  MattSpeller @IRJ last edited by

                  @IRJ Some of us are actually addicted to the pain man, it's an illness! But! The more we do it the better we get and the less it hurts 🙂

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                  • thanksajdotcom
                    thanksajdotcom @coliver last edited by

                    @coliver said:

                    @thanksaj said:

                    @coliver said:

                    I think you said you use Ubuntu predominantly? If you use the GUI it is very simple to join the Ubuntu machine to an AD domain.

                    I have no GUI on Ubuntu Server.

                    Sorry I was trying to remember the authentication module that Ubuntu has. It is called winbind

                    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryWinbindHowto

                    Yup, found this.

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                    • thanksajdotcom
                      thanksajdotcom @coliver last edited by

                      @coliver said:

                      @IRJ said:

                      Why are you doing this to yourself?

                      Because it is a really good exercise and practice?

                      Exactly.

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                      • thanksajdotcom
                        thanksajdotcom @MattSpeller last edited by

                        @MattSpeller said:

                        @IRJ Some of us are actually addicted to the pain man, it's an illness! But! The more we do it the better we get and the less it hurts 🙂

                        It's so true it hurts!

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                        • thanksajdotcom
                          thanksajdotcom @IRJ last edited by

                          @IRJ said:

                          Why are you doing this to yourself?

                          Because, can.

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                          • thanksajdotcom
                            thanksajdotcom last edited by

                            So I tried joining one of my Linux VMs to the domain and it kinda worked but suddenly I couldn't login with domain creds and my local creds weren't working, so I was totally locked out of my own machine. Rolled back to my backup from 3AM and life is good. I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...

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                            • MattSpeller
                              MattSpeller @thanksajdotcom last edited by MattSpeller

                              @thanksaj said:

                              I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...

                              Don't you quit on me, that burning itching uncomfortable sensation is the learning... Besides then you can tell me how you did it and I can learn from your pain 👍

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                              • thanksajdotcom
                                thanksajdotcom @MattSpeller last edited by

                                @MattSpeller said:

                                @thanksaj said:

                                I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...

                                Don't you quit on me, that burning itching uncomfortable sensation is the learning... Besides then you can tell me how you did it and I can learn from your pain 👍

                                LOL The walkthrough @coliver sent me is flawed...don't follow that

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                                • coliver
                                  coliver @thanksajdotcom last edited by

                                  @thanksaj said:

                                  @MattSpeller said:

                                  @thanksaj said:

                                  I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...

                                  Don't you quit on me, that burning itching uncomfortable sensation is the learning... Besides then you can tell me how you did it and I can learn from your pain 👍

                                  LOL The walkthrough @coliver sent me is flawed...don't follow that

                                  Ya, sorry I didn't have a chance to look through it, just had some keywords that I remembered from when I tried it. Instead of rolling back you could always start it in single-user mode and look at the logs to see what caused your logins to fail. Troubleshooting is part of the fun.

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                                  • thanksajdotcom
                                    thanksajdotcom @coliver last edited by

                                    @coliver said:

                                    @thanksaj said:

                                    @MattSpeller said:

                                    @thanksaj said:

                                    I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...

                                    Don't you quit on me, that burning itching uncomfortable sensation is the learning... Besides then you can tell me how you did it and I can learn from your pain 👍

                                    LOL The walkthrough @coliver sent me is flawed...don't follow that

                                    Ya, sorry I didn't have a chance to look through it, just had some keywords that I remembered from when I tried it. Instead of rolling back you could always start it in single-user mode and look at the logs to see what caused your logins to fail. Troubleshooting is part of the fun.

                                    Too late...rolled back already.

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                                    • thanksajdotcom
                                      thanksajdotcom @thanksajdotcom last edited by

                                      @thanksaj said:

                                      @coliver said:

                                      @thanksaj said:

                                      @MattSpeller said:

                                      @thanksaj said:

                                      I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...

                                      Don't you quit on me, that burning itching uncomfortable sensation is the learning... Besides then you can tell me how you did it and I can learn from your pain 👍

                                      LOL The walkthrough @coliver sent me is flawed...don't follow that

                                      Ya, sorry I didn't have a chance to look through it, just had some keywords that I remembered from when I tried it. Instead of rolling back you could always start it in single-user mode and look at the logs to see what caused your logins to fail. Troubleshooting is part of the fun.

                                      Too late...rolled back already.

                                      Besides, I couldn't access the system period. Kind of hard to troubleshoot when you can't connect via SSH and there is no GUI.

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                                      • thanksajdotcom
                                        thanksajdotcom @thanksajdotcom last edited by

                                        @thanksaj said:

                                        @MattSpeller said:

                                        @thanksaj said:

                                        I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...

                                        Don't you quit on me, that burning itching uncomfortable sensation is the learning... Besides then you can tell me how you did it and I can learn from your pain 👍

                                        LOL The walkthrough @coliver sent me is flawed...don't follow that

                                        I found this same walkthough on my own too though.

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                                        • scottalanmiller
                                          scottalanmiller @thanksajdotcom last edited by

                                          @thanksaj said:

                                          So I tried joining one of my Linux VMs to the domain and it kinda worked but suddenly I couldn't login with domain creds and my local creds weren't working, so I was totally locked out of my own machine. Rolled back to my backup from 3AM and life is good. I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...

                                          Did you have keys set up first? Was root impacted too? Or did you forget to enable root first?

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                                          • scottalanmiller
                                            scottalanmiller @thanksajdotcom last edited by

                                            @thanksaj said:

                                            @MattSpeller said:

                                            @thanksaj said:

                                            I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...

                                            Don't you quit on me, that burning itching uncomfortable sensation is the learning... Besides then you can tell me how you did it and I can learn from your pain 👍

                                            LOL The walkthrough @coliver sent me is flawed...don't follow that

                                            I've had some serious issues with the directions on Ubuntu's site. Their how-tos for really basic stuff that people test all of the time are fine. But once you get away from consumer tasks into real enterprise and business tasks things tend to be unmaintained and sometimes downright fake.

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