Add Ubuntu workstation into your Windows Active Directory

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January 21st, 2010

The good points about this kind of setup is as follows:

Single username/password combination across entire network.
Enforces password policies

Likewise Open enables Linux, Unix and Mac authentication on a Microsoft network using Active Directory. A user can now interactively log in to the Linux, Unix or Mac machine using Active Directory credentials, and can access any kerberized services that the non-Windows machine hosts can.

Open / install likewise

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install likewise-open

sudo domainjoin-cli join fqdn.of.your.domain Administrator

Open defaults

sudo update-rc.d likewise-open defaults

sudo /etc/init.d/likewise-open start

Reboot and login with domain\user credentials

Check settings within terminal you can check your settings

Check active directory for your new created object

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Yvo van Doorn says:

January 25, 2010 at 12:11 pm

If you want to get rid of the UBUNTU\ part…
edit the following file:
“vi /etc/likewise/lsassd.conf”
Find the line that says “assume-default-domain”
and set it to true or uncomment depending on the version of likewise.

It’s best to reboot after this just to deal with the change.

PS. This only works when your user account and computer account are part of the same domain.

PPS. Sorry I commented from a Mac.