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Ubuntu: Ignoring Transitive Trust Domains when using Samba/Winbind


Categories: Linux

If your Ubuntu host is authenticating against an Active Directory Domain Controller, you may find there are multiple subdomains or transitive trusts visible.  Which is not a problem in most cases – but if your host is in a subnet where a connection to these other subdomain or transitive trust domains is not possible, you … Ubuntu: Ignoring Transitive Trust Domains when using Samba/Winbind

Ubuntu: Creating a Samba/CIFS share to quickly share files with Windows


Categories: Linux

We live in a multi-platform world, and the ability to easily share folders of content between users in the same protected network is a function made very convenient in the Windows world with CIFS shares (e.g. \\mydesktop\sharedfolder). Luckily for Ubuntu users, it is pretty easy to setup CIFS shares to offer that same interoperability with … Ubuntu: Creating a Samba/CIFS share to quickly share files with Windows