Using Likewise Open’s handy GUI tool (that also comes with an equally hand command line version) you can quickly and easily connect a Linux machine to a Windows domain. What you will need An already running Ubuntu installation (I prefer 10.04, but 9.10 should work fine).
Can linux server join windows domain?
Now comes the interesting part, where the Linux server becomes a member of the Windows domain. Many (older) instructions on domain integration are based on manually configuring Samba and other stuff. This is tedious and error-prone, but nowadays, there is a much better way for joining a Windows domain: realmd.
Using adcli to join Linux to Windows Domain You can use adcli info command which displays discovered information about an Active Directory domain or an Active Directory domain controller. Adcli join creates a computer account in the domain for the local machine, and sets up a keytab for the machine.
A common question we ran across in our research was “How do I join a Windows domain to a Linux domain?”.
One such tool that has made the challenge of joining a Windows domain is Likewise Open. Using Likewise Open’s handy GUI tool (that also comes with an equally hand command line version) you can quickly and easily connect a Linux machine to a Windows domain. An already running Ubuntu installation (I prefer 10.04, but 9.10 should work fine).
Is Your Linux system a member of the Windows domain?
, and that’s all. With one single command your Linux system has become a member of the Windows domain! If this yields errors because of missing packages (probably samba-common, oddjob, oddjob-mkhomedir und sssd) install those manually and then repeat the realm join command.
Now that our Linux server is a member of the Active Directory domain we can perform some tests. By default if we want to specify any users in the domain, we need to specify the domain name.
How to join RHEL/CentOS 7/8 to Windows domain Active Directory (AD)?
In this tutorial we will join our Linux client (RHEL/Cent. OS 7/8) to Windows Domain Active Directory using adcli. The adcli will be using System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) to connect a Cent. OS/RHEL 7/8 system to Microsoft Active Directory Domain. You basically need two components to connect a RHEL system to Active Directory (AD).
First we want to install all of the below packages in Cent, and os., the cent OS server will need to be able to resolve the Active Directory domain in order to successfully join it. In this instance my DNS server in /etc/resolv. Conf is set to one of the Active Directory servers hosting the example. Com domain that I wish to join.
What is the best way to join a Linux machine?
Samba – Samba is the de facto standard for joining a Linux machine to a Windows domain. Microsoft Windows Services for Unix includes options for serving usernames to Linux / UNIX via NIS and for synchronizing passwords to Linux / UNIX machines.