Create SMB/CIFS share on my NC server and access from web to this share simultaneously

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Hi.

I have a Windows domain.
I’m joined my NC 18 server to Windows domain with sssd package.

I installed SAMBA on my NC server and created a folder for my domain users:

cat  /etc/samba/smb.conf
..
 [123]
  comment = 123
  path = /home/data/123
  admin users = 'Domain Admins'
  locking = no

  browsable = yes
  writable = yes
  guest ok = yes
  read only = no
...

So, how I can make this folder accessible via the web too, so that my domain users can create folders and files via the web with their own domain permissions?

Thx in advance.

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Guys ?
Anyone ?

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Hi, you should use the external storage app to mount this directory to Nextcloud. Best is to use the mount type local.

4

Setting the correct perms will be very hard (if not impossible). NC uses www-data:www-data but CIFS/windoze uses a completely different scheme. Also, you might be in for some interesting errors because for CIFS/windoze FILE==file but for *nix they are different.
you can try to mount -o bind the dir(s) somewhere and see what happens.
GOOD LUCK!

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You should make the SMB share on a Windows server and then mount it as external storage in Nextcloud with each user mapping it with their individual AD credentials. Then permissions will be correct.

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Here is an example how a working fstab entry looks like: vm/smbmount.sh at 4bd5d3a22f2c5b05fca0ef701ac2cd502f4778b1 · nextcloud/vm · GitHub

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cool, very nice script! if i ever need it i’ll copy like like hell from it.
i haven’t studied it really in-depth but i think there might be some troubles in AD/“Domain”-environments (not only b/c windoze update constantly breaks things). i’ll be glad to learn the opposite, though.
it might be worth noting to the OP that he (probably) does not need a full-featured samba-server but only some kind of cifs-utils/smbmount-pkg.

from this i gleaned that domain-perms were to be retained pervasively - to which i guess my first answer still applies.

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I am not sure if he wants to create a samba server on the same server where the Nextcloud is installed on. For this usecase there is the smbserver script. (But it doesn’t cover AD integration). vm/smbserver.sh at master · nextcloud/vm · GitHub
And here are some docs about it: https://szaimen.github.io/Nextcloud-NAS-Guide/docs/smb-server

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BTW: it is also ppssible to mount a smb-share with the smbmount script and then use that mountpoint in the smb-server script to make it available via smb. :slight_smile:

But as I said: it doesn’t cover AD integration.

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Thx, guys.